Letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign
and Commonwealth Affairs from the Chairman of the Committee
ALLEGED COMPLICITY
IN TORTURE
BY MI5 AND
MI6 AGENTS
At its meeting on 1 April the Committee considered
an article published in The Daily Telegraph on 28 March,
of which I attach a copy.[3]
The article describes that having reviewed files, senior officials
in both MI5 and MI6 have identified 15 cases in which British
intelligence officers may have been complicit in torture or mistreatment
of terror suspects by US personnel. The article also states that
these cases may involve British Nationals.
We would be grateful for your response to this article.
In particular, we would be grateful if you could let us know when
FCO officials first became aware of these cases and when this
information was first passed to Ministers.
2 April 2009
3 Not published. Back
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