all the information you are learning on this. reporter: well, rosemary, i ve just come from the event, the press conference and the demonstration of a video that was played to us twice of mr. hedges allegedly confessing to spying for mi 6. in one of the sections it is a video of him in one of the court hearings in which he s asked by the courts whether he was an m.i. 6 agent and what rank he was, to which he replies, captain. now, this is very significant because there are no ranks in m.i. 6. there is no such thing as a captain in m.i. 6. so, it s a clear indication he was trying to signal, at least denial, that he was an m.i. 6 agent. whether he was or wasn t. and then on top of that, they showed a further video interrogation with him in a comfortable-looking office, in which he sat across a table,
m.i. 6. he replies captain. that s significant because there is no such thing as a captain in m.i. 6. there are no military ranks of any kind in m.i. 6. then there was a series of clips from an interrogation in a comfortable looking office in a civilized environment with him sitting across a desk, looking relaxed, talking to two emirate officials in which he explains that he was an intelligence analyst with m.i. 6, but then he goes on to say that the people who developed assets, as they call it, who persuade people in foreign countries to betray their nation and reveal the secrets to the british, those are called field operatives. he says, i wasn t one of them. that s not my role. but then he goes on to describe how that s exactly what he was doing in the emirates. he describes how he was using the cover of, as he put it, matthew hedges, ph.d. to