A letter from the then head of MI5, Sir Antony Duff, to Sir Robert Armstrong, the then cabinet secretary, that was sent in 1986 was read out to the inquiry. A member of MI5, Duff wrote, had heard from two sources that Morrison had “a penchant for small boys”. The security service was not sure whether it was based on rumours previously aired in 1983 or on more recent events. The security service interviewed Hayman’s friends and then him, particularly about reports that in the 1950s when he was in Baghdad local boys had visited him for sexual purposes. The DPP, Hayman told MI5, had given him immunity from prosecution.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2019 19:03 UTC