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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).
The archway, showing the GMW infill extension built for MI5. Thames House was first used by MI5 between 1934 and 1939: the service was located on the top floor of the South Block. [3] The service relocated to Blenheim Palace for much of the Second World War and then moved to Leconfield House after the war before relocating to 140 Gower Street ...
A typical Bletchley Park intercept sheet of an Enigma machine message, after decryption. The 1943 British–US Communication Intelligence Agreement, BRUSA, connected the signal intercept networks of the GC&CS and the U.S. National Security Agency. [20] The GC&CS was based largely at Bletchley Park.
MI5: Counter-espionage and military policy in dealing with the civil population (the former Home Section of the Secret Service Bureau) Liaison with the Security Service (counterintelligence) Active: MI6: Legal and economic section dealing with the MI finance as well as economic intelligence and personnel records. Monitoring arms trafficking.
The Security Service Act 1989 (c. 5) is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament.The Act established a statutory basis of the UK Security Service (MI5) for the first time. . Prior to the Act, successive UK governments had denied the existence of MI5, despite its operation since 190
Andrew David Parker, Baron Parker of Minsmere, GCVO, KCB, PC (born 8 May 1962 [1]), is a British life peer and former intelligence officer who served as Director General of MI5 from 2013 to 2020. He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 2021 to 2024, and is a crossbench member of the House of Lords .
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 ...
The Government of India has social welfare and social security schemes for India's citizens funded either by the central government, state government or concurrently. Schemes that the central government fully funds are referred to as "central sector schemes" (CS).