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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.
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.
An intelligence officer is a person employed by an organization to collect, compile or analyze information (known as intelligence) which is of use to that organization.The word of officer is a working title, not a rank, used in the same way a "police officer" can also be a sergeant, or in the military, in which non-commissioned personnel may serve as intelligence officers.
At the time, although the agent 'Jack King' was not identified, the Daily Telegraph newspaper named him as John Bingham. [8] A subsequent set of files released by MI5 in October 2014 revealed that he was Eric Roberts, a previously unknown MI5 officer. [9] The operation is the subject of the 2018 book Agent Jack by the journalist Robert Hutton.
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).
"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).
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 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]