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Britain may have to resort to anti-subversion laws, watchdog warns

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Jonathan Hall KC , independent reviewer of state threat legislation, is due to report this week .

He was asked to look at what legal measures would be useful against "highly aggressive state bodies" such as Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps .

Mr Hall will say the internet offers intelligence officers a "perfect way of directly recruiting and paying individuals" Counter-subversion was part of MI5 's role in the 1950s and 1970s but fell out of favour.

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semi-formal

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English

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60

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possibly offensive

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short-lived

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