The nerve agents adviser says questions remain about the policy of vetting speakers' social media.
A chemical weapons expert who had his invitation to speak at a Ministry of Defence conference withdrawn after his social media was vetted has received a government apology.
Mr Kaszeta, an American who spent 12 years advising the White House, has been based in the UK since 2010. Mr Kaszeta told Newsnight in May he believed this was because he had spoken out on a range of issues, criticising asylum policy and Brexit. "DSTL would not rescind an invitation of a speaker on the basis that the speaker had criticised government policy.
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