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Thursday, 21 February 2008
Ex-MI6 chief admits agents do have a licence to kill but denies executing Diana
'The most senior member of the security services ever to give evidence to a public hearing admitted yesterday he did have a 'licence to kill'.
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, known as "C" when he headed MI6, told the Diana inquest the Secret Intelligence Service had the power to use "lethal force" - but he had never exercised it in his 38-year career as a spook.'