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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 its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).
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He was appointed Deputy Director General of MI5 in April 2017. [2] He described his early career as: "I spent my twenties mostly trying to recruit terrorists inside terrorist organisations to work as secret agents [to keep] the rest of us safe." [4] In 2018, McCallum took charge of the MI5 response to the attempted assassination of Sergei ...
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]
The Double-Cross System or XX System was a World War II counter-espionage and deception operation of the British Security Service (). Nazi agents in Britain – real and false – were captured, turned themselves in or simply announced themselves, and were then used by the British to broadcast mainly disinformation to their Nazi controllers.
Robert Hendy-Freegard (born Robert Freegard, 1 March 1971) [1] is a British convicted conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent, from his early 20s through his 30s, while working as a barman and car salesman. [2] He is also known as David Hendy and David Clifton. [3]
Tom Marcus is the pseudonym of a British intelligence agency officer of the Security Service (MI5).Marcus is the author of a memoir and two novels. Marcus grew up in the north of England and served as a surveillance officer in the Security Service (known as MI5) before leaving the service in 2013 after being diagnosed with PTSD.
This is a list of intelligence agencies by country. It includes only currently operational institutions. The list isn't intended to be exhaustive. An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy ...