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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.
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]
This was a system based on an internal memo drafted by an MI5 officer in 1936, which criticised the long-standing policy of arresting and sending to trial all enemy agents discovered by MI5. Several had offered to defect to Britain when captured; before 1939, such requests were invariably turned down.
MI5 alert on alleged China agent upheld by judges Dominic Casciani - Home and Legal Correspondent and Joe Pike - Political Investigations Correspondent December 17, 2024 at 8:40 AM
"Security Service (MI5) file on "Mutt and Jeff", No. KV 2/1067" (PDF). The National Archives. John Ezard (28 November 2002). "Double agents Mutt and Jeff misled Nazis". The Guardian. Stephen Moyes (28 November 2002). "Churchill's Cousin Was A Russian Spy". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 10 October 2007. Gideon Long (27 November 2002).
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.
Andrew David Parker, Baron Parker of Minsmere, GCVO, KCB, PC (born 8 May 1962 [1]), is a British life peer and former intelligence officer who served as Director General of MI5 from 2013 to 2020. He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 2021 to 2024, and is a crossbench member of the House of Lords .