According to the BBC, the intelligence agent, a foreign citizen, had worked as a secret source under various aliases for MI5, infiltrating extremist networks and returning information to them.
But one woman, who met the man on a dating site, told the broadcaster that he had abused her physically and psychologically and that he used his status to discourage her from reporting his behavior, citing “men in high places who are always behind him.” were standing. The report does not specify in which country this took place.
In a video shared by one of the accusers and broadcast by the BBC, a man standing over the person filming appears to threaten her with a large knife. That episode, said the woman, identified by the pseudonym Beth in the BBC report, prompted authorities to arrest him and charge him with assault. Prosecutors eventually dropped the case, but the woman said police had failed to properly prosecute the case against him.
On Friday, legal representatives before her from the Center for Women’s Justice said she had filed a legal complaint with an independent tribunal responsible for intelligence complaints, demanding that it investigate the MI5’s recruitment of the agent and “whether there is steps were taken to address the apparent risk of harm he posed.”
Another woman, who met the man abroad while he was working for an undisclosed foreign intelligence agency, also said the officer had abused her, causing her to seek medical attention and have a mental breakdown.
Evidence the BBC had looked at also suggested the officer himself was an extremist, including a private police diary kept in which he wrote about the killing of Jews. He also praised several white racist mass murderers and said he planned to commit similar acts, one of the women said.
“Since the BBC was able to determine that X had a history of violence and abuse, MI5 should also have been aware,” the investigation concluded.