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In intelligence organizations, agent handling is the management of so-called agents (called secret agents or spies in common parlance), principal agents, and agent networks (called "assets") by intelligence officers typically known as case officers.
Upon leaving the army he joined MI5 where he completed his training in June 1977. [5] His first assignment at the service was to A Section, in Northern Ireland, where he was an agent handler during the Provisional IRA's campaign against the British state, [6] until his close colleague Bill Crombie was kidnapped and killed in August 1978. [7]
Following his training, Chapman was dispatched to Britain to sabotage the De Havilland factory in Hatfield, which was manufacturing the Mosquito bomber aircraft. Shortly after landing off target near Littleport, Cambridgeshire, Chapman turned himself in to local police and offered to work for MI5, who decided to use him as a double agent. [4] [5]
Volunteers must pass a two-week pre-selection course followed by four months at the Joint Intelligence Training Group at MOD Chicksands. [2] JSG personnel who are tasked with recruiting and running sources are called agent handlers and their recruitment, selection and deployment is known within the military as OP Samson. [1]
The corporation said the story is ‘firmly in the public interest’ and will run in the coming days.
Michael John Bettaney (13 February 1950 – 16 August 2018), [1] also known as Michael Malkin, was a British intelligence officer who worked in the counter-espionage branch of the Security Service often known as MI5.
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Britain's top domestic spymaster cautioned the population on Wednesday to treat the threat of spying from Russia and China as vigilantly as terrorism, warning that foreign spies were seeking to ...