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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Andrew David Parker, Baron Parker of Minsmere, GCVO, KCB, PC (born 8 May 1962 [1]), is a British life peer and former intelligence officer who served as Director General of MI5 from 2013 to 2020. He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 2021 to 2024, and is a crossbench member of the House of Lords .
Liddell was expected to succeed David Petrie as Director General of MI5, but was passed over when Home Secretary Herbert Morrison was informed by Ellen Wilkinson of rumours that he might be a double agent and was instead appointed Deputy-Director-General under Percy Sillitoe. These rumours were accentuated when his close friend Guy Burgess ...