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He was appointed Deputy Director General of MI5 in April 2017. [2] He described his early career as: "I spent my twenties mostly trying to recruit terrorists inside terrorist organisations to work as secret agents [to keep] the rest of us safe." [4] In 2018, McCallum took charge of the MI5 response to the attempted assassination of Sergei ...
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 ...
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 ...
Many departments of MI5, including F Division, moved from London to Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, during World War II, due to threat of bombing. [7] From 1953 to 1956, Hollis was MI5 Deputy Director General under Dick White, succeeding White in 1956 and remaining in that post until his retirement in 1965. [8]
The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and the 1930s. Bowyer. ISBN 978-1-84383-938-5. Rimington, Stella (2001). Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09943-672-0. Thomas, Martin (2008). Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914. University of ...
Keast-Butler joined GCHQ from MI5, where she was Deputy Director General, responsible for MI5's operational, investigative and protective security work. This has included MI5's – and the allies' – preparation for and response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Director of GCHQ, Deputy Director General of MI5 Sir Jeremy Ian Fleming KCMG CB was the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters , the UK's intelligence, cyber and security agency. He was appointed in 2017 [ 1 ] and was the 16th person to hold the role.
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 ...