The ISIS butcher unmasked last week as Mohammed Emwazi denied holding extremist views before becoming the terrorist monster known as Jihadi John, this recording reveals.
He denied being an extremist in a recording made by advocacy group Cage shortly after being deported from Tanzania to be questioned by MI5 agents.
Emawzi, a Kuwaiti who came to the UK as a child and went to school at Quintin Kynaston Academy in north west London, had arrived in the country for a holiday in 2009 but was refused entry.
Intelligence officials believed that Emwazi was headed for terrorist training, and not a holiday as he claimed.
Speaking to Cage after returning to the UK later that year, he said: "He [the MI5 officer] looked at me and he said 'I still believe that you're going to Somalia to train'.
"He just started, you know, going on trying to put words into my mouth."
In the recording, obtained by the BBC, he added: "'We are going to keep a close eye on you, Mohammed. We already have been and we are going to keep a close eye on you' - threatening me."
Cage accused the British intelligence services for harassing Emwazi last week after his identity was revealed.
The group also claimed that the would-be Butcher was radicalised in the UK.
Their statements were slammed however by Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokeswoman however.
She said: “It is completely reprehensible to suggest that anyone who carries out such brutal murders – they are the ones responsible and we should not be seeking to put blame on other people, particularly those who are working to keep British citizens safe.
"The people responsible for these murders are the people we are seeing in the videos.”
A director of Cage, Asim Qureshi, was caught on camera in 2006 allegedly urging Muslims to back jihadists.
He reportedly told the crowd at a meeting organised by Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir to back Muslims fighting in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Kashmir, saying: "We know that it is incumbent upon all of us, to support the jihad of our brothers and sisters in these countries when they are facing the oppression of the West."
Qureshi is yet to comment on the video.
Speaking after the release of the recording, he said he believed the approach taken by the agents was "a factor in the reason why he felt like he didn't belong in the UK any more".
He told Today: "All we are asking for is a little bit of accountability.
"What we want to see is that our security agencies don't operate in a way that actually drives people away from feeling like they have a role to play in this society.
"What Mohamed Emwazi's case shows is that for over a two-and-a-half-year period he's trying his best to use the system to effect change in his situation, which is why he comes to us."
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