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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).
The Single Intelligence Account (SIA) is the funding vehicle for the three main security and intelligence agencies: the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), [44] Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [45] and the Security Service (MI5). [46] Spending on the SIA was £3.6 billion in financial year 2022/23. [47]
Kell and Cumming decided to divide the intelligence work, Kell taking responsibility for domestic concerns, while Cumming was to oversee foreign matters. However, their working relationship was fraught, as Cumming advocated the separation of the Bureau's work into two distinct departments (which evolved into MI5 and MI6). The separation took ...
The group included Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and John Cairncross. ... offering a trove of intelligence in exchange for £50,000 and safe resettlement in the UK. ... wartime MI5 ...
Andrew is a former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR) Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chairman of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and Canberra.
Security Service/MI5 [45] – Domestic counter terrorism and counter espionage intelligence gathering and analysis. Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) – Counter terrorism and protecting critical national infrastructure.
Other documents released on Tuesday relating to MI5's work from 1909 until the 1970s, reveal MI5's interest in actor Dirk Bogarde who was believed to have been approached by Russian intelligence ...
Fifth Column was the name MI5, the British Security Service, gave to a World War II operation run from 1942 until at least 1947.It was initially intended to identify people who would be willing to assist Germany in the event of an invasion of the United Kingdom, but as it developed, it also acted to divert its targets away from harmful activities.