MI5
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| Agency executive | Andrew Parker |
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| Headquarters | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| Minister responsible | Sajid Javid |
| Secretary of State for the Home Department | |
| Employees | 31 March 2016 |
| Motto | Regnum Defende ("Defence of the Realm") |
| Founders | Vernon Kell |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 803051 |
About MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service, Government Communications Headquarters and Defence Intelligence.
Omagh police shooting: Attack on John Caldwell a wake up call for PSNI
... Within a year, its suspected leadership was rounded-up by the PSNI following a surveillance operation run by Mi5 using an alleged agent...
Let us name MI5 agent to protect women, BBC asks High Court
...A BBC programme wants to name an Mi5 agent because he represents a danger to other women and must be publicly identified to prevent future harm, the High Court has heard...
The Crown: Was Harold Wilson suspected of being a Soviet spy?
... But what did Mi5 really think? Let me guess, Wilson was a Labour prime minister? Yes, he was a grammar school boy from Huddersfield who went to Oxford and was a Labour prime minister from 1964 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1976...
General election 2019: What impact on UK security and intelligence?
... Domestically, within the three UK intelligence agencies - Mi5, MI6 and GCHQ - political neutrality is overseen by extensive parliamentary and management checks...
London Bridge: Why was the attacker, Usman Khan, out of prison?
...London Bridge attacker Usman Khan came to the attention of counter-terrorism investigators because he was involved in a highly active cell around Stoke-on-Trent, part of a wider network of radicals then headed by Mi5 and the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit had intelligence that a group of nine men from London, Cardiff and Stoke, including Khan, wanted to bomb the London Stock Exchange...
UK terrorism threat downgraded to 'substantial'
... Assessments determining the country s threat level are taken by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) - part of Mi5 - which makes its recommendations independently from the government...
Spotlight IRA plan to hit south east England shows the power supply
... But the program shows how to use the key IRA bombers have been caught or killed, after extensive surveillance operations by the British police and Mi5...
MI5 ignored Cold War spy tip-off over 'jealous wife' fears
...Convicted British spies Harry Houghton and Miss Ethel Gee were both found guilty of spying and each sentenced to 15 years in prison British intelligence ignored a tip-off about one of the most significant spies of the Cold War because it came from his spurned wife, according to newly-released Mi5 files...
