British Spy Agency Mi5

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  Russia Seeking To Cause "Mayhem" In UK Over Support For Ukraine: Spy Agency

  Russia and Iran had turned to employing criminals and private intelligence officers to do their work on British soil, the chief of Britain's domestic intelligence service said.

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  UK's Spy Agency, FBI Bosses Flag China Threat In Rare Joint Address

  The heads of MI5 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Wednesday about China's commercial espionage thrust in the West, in a rare joint address at the British intelligence service's London headquarters.

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  Britain's Spies Defending Covid Vaccine Work, Says Spy Agency MI5 Chief

  British spies are trying to defend COVID-19 vaccine work against hostile powers that seek to either steal or sabotage research data in the race for the global prize of a jab that could provide immunity, the head of MI5 said on Wednesday.

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  UK Spy Agency To Review Its Handling Of Intelligence On Manchester Bomber

  Britain's intelligence agency MI5 is to hold an inquiry into how it dealt with public warnings that the Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi posed a potential threat.

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  British Spy Chief Warns Of Threats From 'Aggressive' Russia

  The head of British intelligence agency MI5, Andrew Parker, on Monday warned of Russia acting in "increasingly aggressive ways" and utilising new technologies in its opposition to the west.

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  British Spy Agency Hailed As Best Gay-Friendly Employer

  Just over 25 years since Britain's powerful domestic spy agency dropped a ban on hiring homosexuals, MI5 was hailed on Tuesday as the country's most gay-friendly employer.

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  UK MI5 Spy Chief Calls For More Powers To Counter Terror Threat

  The head of Britain's domestic spy service, MI5, called on Thursday for greater powers for the security agencies to keep pace with technology used by militants in the first live media interview by a British intelligence chief.

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  CIA Revelations Put UK Spies Under Scrutiny

  British spy agencies are under growing pressure to reveal how closely they worked with their US counterparts following 9/11 after a damning US Senate report exposed how the CIA tortured terror suspects.

• British spies 'tried to recruit' Islamist attacker

  Britain's intelligence agencies came under fresh scrutiny on Saturday following claims that MI5 had tried to recruit one of two Islamists accused of butchering a soldier in London.

• Nazis 'planted spy in MI5 during World War II'

  German dictator Adolf Hitler managed to plant a Nazi agent in British spy agency MI5 during the initial years of the Second World War, but failed to utilise him, de-classified documents have revealed.

• Britain warned businesses of China spy threat

  British business executives dealing with China were given a formal warning more than a year ago by Britain's security service, MI5, that Chinese intelligence agencies were engaged in a wide-ranging effort to hack into British companies' computers.

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  Benito Mussolini 'was MI5's agent in Italy'

  Italy's wartime dictator Benito Mussolini, credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism, was actually British spy agency MI5's "secret agent", de-classified documents have revealed.