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New Enemies

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Last broadcast on Mon, 10 Aug 2009, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to senior intelligence officers, agents and diplomats as well as their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of espionage.

Exploring the role of MI6 in the 21st century. The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, John Scarlett, talks for the first time about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MI6's role in the run-up to the war in Iraq.

MI6 'is not complicit' in torture

The head of MI6 Sir John Scarlett tells the BBC the British secret service has not been involved with torture.

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  1. Mon 10 Aug 2009
    09:00
  2. Mon 10 Aug 2009
    21:30

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