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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).
NISCC's role was to provide advice to companies operating critical national infrastructure, [34] and NSAC was a unit within MI5 that provided security advice to other parts of the UK government. The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) was formed as a child agency of MI5 in 2007, merging the NISCC and NSAC. [ 35 ]
Two MI section-names remain in common use, MI5 and MI6, in most part due to their use in spy fiction and the news media. " MI5 " is used as the short form name of the Security Service , and is included in the agency's logo and web address .
The head of MI5 will make his first joint public appearance with counterparts from the Five Eyes intelligence services amid warnings about the threats to UK businesses from foreign states.
The world is at its most dangerous point for 40 years, the head of MI6 has warned, accusing Russia of waging a “staggeringly reckless campaign” of sabotage in Europe to undermine support for ...
A series of CIA memos were released in January 2017 after a legal case by MuckRock, which promotes freedom of information. [7] One memo was dated May 1983, shortly before the UK general election, and stated that the CIA was concerned about certain figures in the Labour Party, such as then-leader Michael Foot and deputy leader, Denis Healey, accusing them of "aping anti-American rhetoric".
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 ...
Mr McCallum said MI5 was “powerfully alive to the risk that events in the Middle East directly trigger terrorist action in the UK”, and while the “ripples from conflict in that region will ...