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Attorney General seeks injunction to block BBC from exposing alleged MI5 agent
The report accuses the alleged MI5 agent of being a dangerous extremist who abused two former partners

A BBC broadcast exposing an alleged MI5 agent would damage national security and put him at an “immediate risk of serious or life-threatening harm,” a High Court has heard. 

Attorney General Suella Braverman is seeking an injunction to block the BBC from airing a broadcast accusing an alleged MI5 agent of being a dangerous extremist who physically and psychologically abused two former partners. 

The proposed report also claims that the man, identified in proceedings as X, told one woman that he worked for MI5 in order to terrorise and control her, and that the government’s domestic spying agency should have known it was wrong to use him as a covert intelligence source.

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