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In April 2020, McCallum succeeded Sir Andrew Parker as Director General of MI5. [6] [3]In 2021, McCallum said in his annual threat update that the activities of China, Russia, and other hostile states could have as large an impact on the public as terrorism, marking a significant shift in emphasis for the UK’s domestic spy agency.
The Director General of the Security Service is the head of the Security Service (commonly known as MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency. The Director General is assisted by a Deputy Director General and an Assistant Director General, and reports to the Home Secretary , although the Security Service is ...
In 2005, he became Deputy Director General. [9] In March 2007, he was announced as the next Director General of MI5, in succession to Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller. [9] He took up the post in April 2007. [10] In November 2007, he talked publicly about the threat the UK faces from digital espionage. [11] He spoke at RUSI on National Security in ...
Graham Russell Mitchell OBE, CB (4 November 1905 – 19 November 1984), was an officer of MI5, the British Security Service, between 1939 and 1963, serving as its deputy director general between 1956 and 1963.
In 1873 the Intelligence Branch was created within the Quartermaster General's Department with an initial staff of seven officers. [4] Initially the Intelligence Branch was solely concerned with collecting intelligence, but under the leadership of Henry Brackenbury , a protege of influential Adjutant-General Lord Wolseley , it was increasingly ...
In her previous Director General role, Keast-Butler was Director General Strategy, leading the enabling functions that support MI5’s operational activities. [ 1 ] Prior to this, Keast-Butler spent two years on secondment to GCHQ as Head of Counter Terrorism and Serious Organised Crime and has also spent part of the last decade on secondment ...
She was appointed Deputy Director General in 1997, and succeeded Sir Stephen Lander as Director General in 2002, the second woman to take on the role after Dame Stella Rimington. [ 7 ] In the 2005 Birthday Honours , Manningham-Buller was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB). [ 8 ]
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]