Naming A Covert Officer

A former officer of a national intelligence service, some years out of the agency, talked to journalists about colleagues who had worked on secret operations. Prosecutors said he gave a reporter the name of an officer whose connection to the agency had been classified for more than twenty years, and linked that officer to the agency's programme of secret transfers, detention and harsh interrogation. He also gave out a second officer's name and role, and that officer was then photographed by a defence investigator.