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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).
To qualify for the increment, SAS and SBS personnel must have served for at least five years and have reached the rank of sergeant. They are security vetted by MI6 and given a short induction course into the function and objectives of the service. If they have not already learnt surveillance skills, they take a three- week course at the Fort.
The Single Intelligence Account (SIA) is the funding vehicle for the three main security and intelligence agencies: the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), [44] Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [45] and the Security Service (MI5). [46] Spending on the SIA was £3.6 billion in financial year 2022/23. [47]
MI6 is launching a recruitment drive to hire more spies from black and Asian backgrounds. MI6 job ‘more exciting than James Bond’ and not only for white men, spy says Skip to main content
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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 Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and the 1930s. Bowyer. ISBN 978-1-84383-938-5.. Read, Anthony, and David Fisher (1984). Colonel Z: The Life and Times of a Master of Spies (London: Hodder and Stoughton 1984). Aldrich, Richard (2000). Intelligence and the War Against Japan Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service ...
[5] [2] One of the consequences of these cuts was the virtual closure of the MI6 station in Tehran – and the sole remaining officer was forbidden from operating out of the British Embassy by Ambassador Anthony Parsons – forcing him to instead rent a flat and depend on briefs delivered by SAVAK.