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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.
Tom Marcus is the pseudonym of a British intelligence agency officer of the Security Service (MI5).Marcus is the author of a memoir and two novels. Marcus grew up in the north of England and served as a surveillance officer in the Security Service (known as MI5) before leaving the service in 2013 after being diagnosed with PTSD.
The actual role carried out by an intelligence officer varies depending on the remit of their parent organization. Officers of foreign intelligence agencies (e.g. the United States' Central Intelligence Agency, the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) may spend much of their careers abroad.
Peter Keeley, who uses the pseudonym Kevin Fulton, is a British agent from Newry, Northern Ireland, who allegedly spied on the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) for MI5. He is believed to be in London , where he is suing the Crown, claiming his military handlers cut off their connections and financial aid to him.
MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), [2] officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).
In July 2010, the government revealed Evans received an annual salary of £159,999. [12] In September 2010, Evans said that the American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was the West's Public Enemy No 1. [13] Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike on 30 September 2011. [14]
A federal agent (also known as a special agent, federal police officer, or federal operative) is an employee of an agency or branch of the federal government, typically one responsible for investigating organized crime and terrorism, handling matters of domestic or national security, and who practices espionage, such as the FBI, CIA, NSA, or MI5.
Robert Hendy-Freegard (born Robert Freegard, 1 March 1971) [1] is a British convicted conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent, from his early 20s through his 30s, while working as a barman and car salesman. [2]