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  2. Vernon Kell - Wikipedia

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    Major General Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, KBE, CB (21 November 1873 – 27 March 1942) was a British Army general and the founder and first Director of the British Security Service, otherwise known as MI5.

  3. MI5 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Spooks (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Spooks (known as MI-5 in some countries) is a British television spy drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 to 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 seasons.

  5. John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney - Wikipedia

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    After leaving MI5, he worked in the City at stockbroking firm Standard Industrial Group, before joining merchant bank Lazard, where he became the first director to resign in over 100 years. [1] He then established Anglo-Eastern Bank with Sir David Alliance , specialising in trade finance between Britain and the Middle East.

  6. Spooks: Code 9 - Wikipedia

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    Spooks: Code 9 (working titles – Rogue Spooks [2] and Spooks: Liberty [3]) is a counter-intelligence drama series broadcast on BBC Three in 2008.. The series was commissioned by BBC Fiction's controller Jane Tranter as a spin-off of their long-running drama Spooks, offering a "more maverick, younger perspective" [4] that would attract a 16–24-year-old audience. [5]

  7. John Cairncross - Wikipedia

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    Cairncross confessed in secret to MI5's Arthur S. Martin in 1964 and gave a limited confession to two journalists from The Sunday Times in December 1979. [2] He was given immunity from prosecution. According to The Washington Post , the suggestion that John Cairncross was the "fifth man" of the Cambridge ring was not confirmed until 1990, by ...

  8. Eric Roberts (spy) - Wikipedia

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    Eric Arthur Roberts (18 June 1907 – 17 [1] or 18 [2] December 1972) was an MI5 agent during the Second World War under the alias Jack King. [3] [4] By posing as a Gestapo agent and infiltrating fascist groups in the UK, Roberts was able to prevent secret information from finding its way to Germany. [5]

  9. "Christmas tree" files - Wikipedia

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    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 ]