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An ISIS plot to attack French athletes taking part in this summer’s Olympics in Rio has been exposed thanks to a TYPO, it has been reported.

A top French spy was reporting to a parliamentary inquiry, held in secret, into the horrific terror attacks inflicted on the nation in 2015.

But when a public report about the hearing came out, a reference to a suspected ISIS plot to kill delegates to the Rio Olympics involving a Brazilian jihadist was struck from the record - but a follow-up question about it was not.

General Christophe Gomart, the director of military intelligence, was outlining how the agency he leads, the DRM, contributes in the fight against terror by detecting foreigners who might lead terrorist actions in France.

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The Chairman of the Committee, politician Georges Fenech, in an apparently unrelated statement, reveals the threat to French athletes at the Olympics by saying: "I had not heard of this Brazilian national who was about to carry out attacks against the French delegation to the Olympic Games."

A source told French newspaper Liberation that this statement should not have been included in the public record as the Director of Military Intelligence would not go into details about the possible arrest and the exact location of the Brazilian member of Islamic State.

French spy agencies made "intelligence failures" that could have prevented the Charlie Hebdo massacre - but not the attack on the Bataclan theatre - an earlier.

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A parliamentary inquiry was set up in February to look into possible security failings in the run-up to the two horrific terror attacks in Paris in 2015 that left 147 people dead.

Fenech said that a lack of communication between different intelligence services resulted in the lifting of surveillance of Charlie Hebdo attacker Said Kouachi.

Fenech has called for a single "national anti-terrorism agency" to counter the threat of violent extremism from the likes of ISIS.