Kevin Sweeney (born 30 March 1968) was a British operative who was part of the counter-terrorist unit Rainbow from 1999 to 2005, having transferred from MI5 into the unit.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Kevin Sweeney was born on March 30, 1968, in Birmingham, West Midlands, England to a waitstaff father and cleaning woman mother, with two brothers: one older and one younger.
Police and MI5 career[]
Sweeney joined the West Midlands Police in 1987, being promoted to detective in 1991. He then spent the next five years working in the Special Branch as an undercover operative. Sweeney coordinated a series of raids in 1996 against the Field of Gold alongside MI5, being recruited to the organization in 1997. He joined their counter-terrorist branch, working out of London and committing to over two dozen covert operations that countered threats to Britain.
Rainbow career[]
In 1999, Sweeney was invited to Rainbow, a newly founded multinational counter-terrorist task force. Sweeney was a recon operative during the 2000 Phoenix Group attacks, the Oil Mafia crackdown in 2002, and the 2005 Ustase plot. He then served in a training position until 2009, returning to MI5 as a senior agent.