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Intelligence and Security Act 2017

Covert activities of intelligence and security agencies - Assumed identities

21: Purpose of subpart

You could also call this:

"Letting spy agency workers have a secret identity to keep them safe"

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The purpose of this part of the law is to let an employee of an intelligence and security agency have a fake identity. You can use this fake identity to help the agency do its job without people knowing what it is doing. This also helps keep the employee's real identity secret.

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Part 3Covert activities of intelligence and security agencies
Assumed identities

21Purpose of subpart

  1. The purpose of this subpart is to enable an employee of an intelligence and security agency to acquire an assumed identity, use an assumed identity, or maintain an assumed identity for the purposes of—

  2. facilitating the ability of that intelligence and security agency to carry out its activities while maintaining the secrecy of those activities:
    1. protecting the identity of the employee.