Spy kids: minors work as agents in British intelligence
British intelligence acknowledged that it has resorted to special missions to perform special tasks. children who work as spies.
Minors are most often implanted in criminal groups to gather the necessary information.
The facts of the use of minors in intelligence work were ascertained by members of the committee of the House of Lords.
They raised this question before the leadership of intelligence and found out that the children really work, and on a par with adult intelligence officers, they undergo retraining and re-registration every month. At the same time, the intelligence leadership expressed a desire to extend this period from one to four months.
Members of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom said that they were extremely worried about the psyche of these children-spies, because the introduction of the criminal community does not clearly affect them on the positive side.
One of the former secret intelligence officers, Neili Woods, who is now retired, said that The practice of using children in intelligence in England has a long history.
According to him, children and adolescents manage to achieve amazing results - they not only regularly report on what they have seen and heard, but they themselves can obtain the necessary data if the task requires it.
According to him, the hype around the use of child labor in intelligence, will only harm minors undercover agents - the criminals will become more suspicious of adolescents in their surroundings, the victims are not excluded.
Most often, children from orphanages, orphans and the so-called difficult teenagers who have committed offenses fall into the ranks of young intelligence officers, Neil Woods said.
