The World - News from Aug. 19, 1985

Britain’s intelligence agency, MI5, which deals with domestic affairs, has helped conduct background investigations on many British Broadcasting Corp. journalists and production employees and some have been put on a blacklist, a London newspaper reported. The Observer said MI5 helps the BBC conduct background checks on all candidates for appointments to the BBC current affairs staff. The paper named eight people, including a reporter and a documentary film director, who it said were blacklisted under the system.