The scandal saw one of France's leading antiques experts, Georges "Bill" Pallot, and award-winning cabinetmaker, Bruno Desnoues, put on trial on charges of fraud and money laundering following a nine-year investigation.
Second, the report said "it was not MI5 policy to record all such exchanges" with journalists. This was untrue. There was a policy requiring such exchanges to be recorded.Third, the report referenced a High Court witness statement I had given and said: "De Simone's witness statement confirms that no disclosure of X's status as a CHIS was made." This was false. My witness statement said no such thing.
When contacted by the BBC, IPCO said it was "misled into amending our draft report to remove the finding that Agent X's status had been disclosed."IPCO said the first two falsehoods were included due to "assurances provided by MI5" and that it is now "clear that this information was incorrect and that the findings in our draft report reflected the true position".Regarding the false information about my witness statement, IPCO said: "We accept that this line in the report reflects our interpretation of your statement based on the information available to us at the time."
The BBC challenged MI5 on its false evidence late last year, leading to. MI5 promised to transparently investigate what happened, and produced new witness statements from the senior officer in charge of the MI5 team who handled X and MI5's director general of strategy - who is in effect third-in-command of the Security Service.
But neither of them told the court about the IPCO reports, even in the closed, secret part of the case intended to allow MI5 to disclose sensitive evidence.
The judge, Mr Justice Chamberlain, only learned about the IPCO report afterDirector and Filmmaker
lives in Newquay and has been to a number of Celtic Media Festivals in the past, so could not miss the one on his doorstep.He said: "It's an interesting time, I think TV over the last few years has been in a tough place but what's really good to see about the Celtic media scene is the collaboration across different nations and the level of openness and access to this festival which is always really refreshing.
"You can strike up a conversation with commissioners really easily and get a real, honest sense of what's happening. But I do think the TV industry is in a tough place at the moment, there's not a lot of money going around."Emma Clements said it was great to see "the shared pride and creativity" on show, adding: "Serving our communities and representing our distinct language, identity, cultural and sporting achievements not only to where we live but to the rest of the world, is so important.