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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).
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. Known as K, he was described in Who's Who as "Commandant, War Department Constabulary". [1]
mi5 Holywood Troop, 321 EOD & Search Squadron RLC Palace Barracks, Holywood is a military installation and the Northern Ireland headquarters of MI5 , in Holywood , County Down , Northern Ireland .
MI5 had “legitimate reasons” to warn MPs about a lawyer accused of working for the Chinese government, judges have ruled. The security service warned that it believed Christine Lee had engaged ...
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.
Security Service/MI5 [45] – Domestic counter terrorism and counter espionage intelligence gathering and analysis. Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) – Counter terrorism and protecting critical national infrastructure.
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, published in the United States as Defend the Realm, is an authorised history of the British Security Service (MI5), written by historian Christopher Andrew. Andrew was commissioned in December 2002 to write the history for MI5's 100th anniversary in 2009.
In July 1987, Labour MP, Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the allegations of a former Army press officer, Colin Wallace, that the Army press office in Northern Ireland had been used in the 1970s as part of a smear campaign, codenamed Clockwork Orange, against Harold Wilson and other British and Irish politicians. [18]