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In January 2022, the MI5 issued an interference alert declaring Lee to be an agent working for the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party, who was covertly "involved in political interference activities in the UK". [21] [4] A lawyer for Lee has claimed that this alert was the first issued in "at least 80 years". [22]
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).
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 personnel (1 C, 70 P) Pages in category "MI5" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... This page was last edited on 29 October 2022, at ...
In addition to concerns about espionage, MI5 is also worried about China covertly gaining influence. [267] In January 2022, BBC reported that MI5 issued a rare warning to UK Parliament Members (MPs), alleging that a Chinese agent, Christine Ching Kui Lee, had infiltrated the Parliament to interfere in UK politics on behalf of the Chinese ...
He warned the UK faces the most "complex and interconnected" threat it has ever seen. He added there had been 20 Iran-backed plots since 2022. [11] In a December 2024 podcast interview with Simon Case, McCallum stated that MI5 has had to "pare back" its counter-terrorism focus due to the growing threat from Russia and other hostile states ...
The home secretary personally signs warrants, issued under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, that authorise MI5's most intrusive intelligence-gathering activities. [ 69 ] [ 72 ] Under the Terrorism Act 2000 , any secretary of state, [ 73 ] in practice the home secretary, [ 74 ] [ 75 ] may, by order , proscribe an organisation if they believe ...
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