MI5
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| Agency executive | Andrew Parker |
|---|---|
| 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...
Spotlight IRA plan to hit south east England shows the power supply
IRA bombers targeted London's Docklands at Canary Wharf in February 1996
planned The Ira to Knock Out claimed the Power Supply to The South -East of England in the last years of his bombing campaign, a former insider.
"Details" revealed in the last episode of the BBC Series spotlight on the difficulties: A Secret History .
insiders describe a power struggle between The Ira and British intelligence.
When The British government refused to admit Sinn Féin was bombed to Peace Talks in the middle of the 1990s, Canary Wharf .
Two People were killed and damage was estimated at £150m in The Attack in February 1996.
In June of the same year, The Ira exploded, as was reported, the largest bomb planted in the UK since the second World War .
More Than 200 people were injured caused by the Explosion in Manchester and significant damage to the infrastructure.
The last program in the ground-breaking BBC Series , presented by Darragh Macintyre , includes first-hand accounts of The Campaign in the UK to The Ira cease-fire temporarily abandoned in 1996.
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 .
John Crawley , was detained shortly before the bombing of the London Power Supply could.the Former US Marine John Crawley , the arrested already has been smuggling weapons from America for The Ira , caught shortly before the bombing of the London Power Supply could.
"We're going to Knock Out he tells the Power Supply of The South -East of England ", the program.
"There are other operations like, but we were caught before we could do it. "
John Grieve , took over Scotland Yard anti-terrorist unit on The Day of the Canary Wharf bomb, told spotlight that Crawley and The Other IRA bombers were "the A-team".
"you were absolutely excellent, And One of them, John Crawley , ex-US Marine demolition specialist, the summit kind of people was for you.
"He was the embodiment of cunning, skills, experience, the kind of people you stand against us. "
John Grieve of Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist unit took over shows on The Day of the Canary Wharf bombBut, Mr. Crawley, that The Ira was stretched by the bombing campaign by the time he was arrested in 1996.
"I asked me to kill why choose us, because we had men tooled up and everything," he says.
"they knew where we were going and not to know that day, I why you just take us, because coffins are Coming Back on the ferry would be a nice message to someone else to find.
"And you don't believe me, it was a lot of people by walking their Hands Up to England . "
The Ira was also broadcast targeted Manchester shopping centre, 1996The last episode on Tuesday, 22. October, on Bbc One NI and Bbc Four on 20. 30 BST.
Will be after this broadcast, a program view on the creation of the Series available to view on Bbc Iplayer .
a light on The problems Behind The Scenes Will be shown on Thursday, 24. October, on Bbc One NI at 21:00.
after the airing of the last episode of the Series - presented by Mandy McAuley, Jennifer O'leary and Darragh Macintyre - Will be available as a box set for up to one year on Bbc Iplayer .
a spotlight on trouble: A Secret History can be viewed on Bbc Iplayer
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Source of news: bbc.com
