Did MI5 set up Max Mosley?
An MI5 officer has been forced to resign after admitting that his wife was a prostitute who took part in a notorious Nazi-style orgy with Max Mosley, the Formula One racing chief. The intelligence officer, who cannot be named for security reasons, left the service last month after it emerged that his wife was one of the five call girls who took part in the sadomasochistic sex session with Mosley. Exposure of the lurid orgy led to calls for Mosley, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the wartime British fascist leader, to step down from his post as president of the FIA, the governing body of world motor sport. In an extraordinary turn of events yesterday, MI5 was forced to deny through Whitehall channels that the orgy had been a sting that it had set up to discredit Mosley. Any suggestion that the service was involved in setting up Mosley is total nonsense, a senior Whitehall official said. The disclosure is a severe embarrassment to Jonathan Evans, director-general of MI5, who is understood
