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All the information you are learning on this. >> reporter: well, rosemary, i've just come from the event, the press conference and the demonstration of a video that was played to us twice of mr. hedges' allegedly confessing to spying for mi 6. in one of the sections it is a video of him in one of the court hearings in which he's asked by the courts whether he was an m.i. 6 agent and what rank he was, to which he replies, captain. now, this is very significant because there are no ranks in m.i. 6. there is no such thing as a captain in m.i. 6. so, it's a clear indication he was trying to signal...

On the m.i. 6 website. they advertise for analysts who stay at home and analyze and field officers who go out into the field and recruit spies as agents for the united kingdom. he was in this jumbled interrogation and said he did both jobs. i happen to know because i spent many years studying british intelligence. analysts rarely, if ever, are asked to conduct field operations and certainly not attempt to recruit agents, which is a specialist task which takes many, many years of training. so, the evidence such as it was provided to us was, in my view, extremely inconclusive as proof of his rol...

Across a desk from two individuals who were typing and translating, cross-questioning him in english, during which he explained that he was an m.i. 6 operative, but that he was an analyst, not a field officer. now, this, again, is a crucial difference. as he pointed out in that interview, analysts analyze and field officers are the people who, in the words of spies, develop assets. in other words, persuade others to reveal secrets. but he then went on to say that while he was in the united arab emirates, he was using the cover of matthew hedges, ph.d. student, and that is how he approached ass...

M.i. 6. he replies captain. that's significant because there is no such thing as a captain in m.i. 6. there are no military ranks of any kind in m.i. 6. then there was a series of clips from an interrogation in a comfortable looking office in a civilized environment with him sitting across a desk, looking relaxed, talking to two emirate officials in which he explains that he was an intelligence analyst with m.i. 6, but then he goes on to say that the people who developed assets, as they call it, who persuade people in foreign countries to betray their nation and reveal the secrets to the briti...

Approach people rather than with his m.i. 6 hat on, as he described it. matthew hedges, m.i. 6. now, this may be an outright confession of, frankly, a johnny english level of spy. or it is him signalling both to his interrogators and perhaps to others that he most certainly was not part of m.i. 6, george. >> wow. all right. sam kiley, thank you again for the reporting. >> let's take a very quick break. still to come, a small but critical waterway is becoming a flash point for russia and the ukraine. the latest on a violent confrontation near crimea. we're back in a moment. we're about to move....