Others said it includes about a dozen senior CIA executives from across its directorates.
It emerged Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) heard of the allegations on March 19 - before separate allegations of racism in the wake of last summer's riots became public.
Overseen by its Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, it includes the management of commercial space transportation, exploration systems development, human spaceflight capabilities, advanced exploration systems, and space life sciences research and applications.
"Everyone assumed everyone else hated it and that I shouldn't recommend it to the directorate," he said.
The Met said it had referred itself to the IOPC and informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards.
In it, Hitz named directorate of operations officers he thought should be dismissed, punished or reprimanded for incompetence in the nine-year spy hunt.
Then the board sent it to the Directorate of Operations, where Berntsen had worked, as is the practice.
PUHL: No, because, I repeat it again, we never discussed this in the Directorate, since it was of no basic significance for currency or banking policy or in any other respect.
Early this month, an open letter signed by the American linguist Noam Chomsky and the British filmmaker Ken Loach, among others, was sent to the Workers Partyy directorate, urging it to reconsider its position.
We did discuss it at the labour ward or Directorate Clinical Governance meetings but it was discussed once it was put in place.
