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LONDON — Internal affairs lawyers for the British intelligence agency MI6 have warned John Scarlett, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service, he could face a Scotland Yard criminal investigation after at least 15 more cases alleging complicity in the torture of terrorist suspects have been uncovered, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The discovery was made by the lawyers reviewing MI6 files on the methods used by the service — with the full approval of Scarlett.
Officers with Scotland Yard’s Serious Crimes Command have already started a criminal inquiry into allegations made by Binyam Mohamed, the Guantanamo Bay detainee, that MI5 was aware he was being tortured in a secret CIA prison in Morocco and that MI5 officers fed questions to his CIA interrogators.
The even more serious claims that Scarlett was aware of other cases involving MI6 came as Baroness Scotland, Britain’s attorney general, authorized the Yard to investigate MI5.
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In the coming week, the investigators will question Jonathan Evans, the 50-year-old head of MI5, who was its former director of counter-intelligence at the time of the alleged torture.
But it is allegations that Sir John Scarlett, knighted for his services to intelligence and due to retire in August this year, knew about MI6’s regular involvement in torture which has sent a shock wave through Britain’s intelligence community.
Sources within MI6 have confirmed the 15 individuals who claim they were tortured by the service in the past five years include British foreign nationals.
“Those interrogations took place under CIA control by British officers. It was at a time of high alert after 9/11 and the very real possibility of an attack on London,” said a source.
The interrogations came to light after MI6’s internal affairs lawyers reviewed hundreds of interrogation reports containing “highly sensitive material.”
It is the first time this has been done since the Burgess and Maclean spy scandals that rocked British intelligence at the height of the Cold War.
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