MI5
[em-ahy-fahyv]
- the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
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Origin of MI5
M(ilitary) I(ntelligence, Section) 5
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Are you unaware of the role agent provocateurs, special branch and MI5 have played in undermining us?
At Risk By Stella Rimington The first novel by the best spy storyteller today, the former head of MI5.
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At the start of the war, on the orders of his Soviet handler, he successfully “coat trailed” his way into MI5.
MI5 focuses on domestic threats; MI6 is the British equivalent of the CIA.
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew is one such tome.
MI5
- Military Intelligence, section five; a former official and present-day popular name for the counterintelligence agency of the British Government
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Word Origin and History for mi5
MI5
1939, from abbreviation of Military Intelligence, followed by the department number.
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