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The officer in charge of vetting at that time was Ronnie Stonham. [3] The "Christmas tree" scheme was dropped in 1984. [4] Mike Fentiman claimed that the Christmas tree symbol was used because the Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" had the same tune as the socialist song "The Red Flag". [5]
MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), [2] officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).
From the late 1930s until the end of the Cold War, MI5 had an officer at the BBC vetting editorial applicants. During World War II 'subversives', particularly suspected communists such as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, were banned from the BBC. The personnel records of anyone suspicious were stamped with a distinctively shaped green tag, or ...
MI5 had ‘legitimate reasons’ to warn about lawyer accused of working for China. Caitlin Doherty, Jess Glass and David Lynch, PA. December 17, 2024 at 11:28 AM.
The committee said: “Extreme right-wing terrorists often display an interest in military culture, weaponry and the armed forces or law enforcement organisations – the director-general for MI5 ...
In July 2010, the government revealed Evans received an annual salary of £159,999. [12] In September 2010, Evans said that the American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was the West's Public Enemy No 1. [13] Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike on 30 September 2011. [14]
Sir Hugh Greene, a former Director-General of the BBC, said about Security Service vetting of BBC job applicants: I was vetted in 1940. MI5 thought I was a Communist but it turned out to be a mistake. Michael Grade, at the time Controller of BBC 1, also commented on the existence of Room 105, where Stonham was based:
The Border Security Command is led by the Border Security Commander, who answers to the Home Secretary; the office is currently held by Martin Hewitt, who was appointed to the role in September 2024, by the Home Secretary, [11] with an advertised salary of £140,000 to £200,000. [15] List of Border Security Commanders. Martin Hewitt (2024 ...