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Jed Moody, a Slough House agent who was previously a globe trotting spy. Louisa Guy, a former field agent who was sent to work at Slough House after she took the fall for a failed operation. Catherine Standish, Jackson Lamb's assistant who previously served under deceased MI5 Director-General, Charles Partner.
Following his training, Chapman was dispatched to Britain to sabotage the De Havilland factory in Hatfield, which was manufacturing the Mosquito bomber aircraft. Shortly after landing off target near Littleport, Cambridgeshire, Chapman turned himself in to local police and offered to work for MI5, who decided to use him as a double agent. [4] [5]
In intelligence organizations, agent handling is the management of so-called agents (called secret agents or spies in common parlance), principal agents, and agent networks (called "assets") by intelligence officers typically known as case officers.
Slough House is a series of spy novels by the British author Mick Herron.Herron began writing the first volume, Slow Horses, in 2008, and published it in 2010. The series follows River Cartwright and his colleagues, a group of humiliated MI5 agents, who have been relegated to paper pushing jobs.
Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have seriously failed a task but have not been sacked. Those consigned there are known as "slow horses", a play on the name of the place itself, Slough House, and an expression for people past their prime who are slow in thinking and action.
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).
Upon leaving the army he joined MI5 where he completed his training in June 1977. [5] His first assignment at the service was to A Section, in Northern Ireland, where he was an agent handler during the Provisional IRA's campaign against the British state, [6] until his close colleague Bill Crombie was kidnapped and killed in August 1978. [7]
Michael John Bettaney (13 February 1950 – 16 August 2018), [1] also known as Michael Malkin, was a British intelligence officer who worked in the counter-espionage branch of the Security Service often known as MI5.