MI5 checks BBC 'infiltrators' who report MI5 'infiltrators'
Al-Qaeda sympathisers have been trying to infiltrate the British security service MI5, the BBC has learned.
Whitehall officials confirmed what some had long suspected, says BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner. Link
BBC had MI5 watch its staff
Confidential papers show that the BBC allowed Britain's domestic security agency, MI5, to investigate the backgrounds and political affiliations of thousands of its employees, including newsreaders, reporters and continuity announcers. Link
db: And I guess that we are supposed to believe that in Blair's Britain MI5 no longer shows an interest in BBC staff. It's a War of Terror - got to check out all those AQ sympathisers - and the Muslims maybe?
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