MI5
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
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How to use MI5 in a sentence
Are you unaware of the role agent provocateurs, special branch and MI5 have played in undermining us?
Did MI5 Spies Troll J.K. Rowling Over Scottish Independence? | The Telegraph | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt Risk By Stella Rimington The first novel by the best spy storyteller today, the former head of MI5.
Our Favorite Books of 2012: Tina Brown, Andrew Sullivan, and Others’ Picks | The Daily Beast | December 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the start of the war, on the orders of his Soviet handler, he successfully “coat trailed” his way into MI5.
War’s Most Powerful Weapon: Double Agents from WWII to Al Qaeda | Ben Macintyre | July 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTArthur Owens spent years in exile, reviled as a Nazi spy, but he actually was a double agent working with MI5.
Second ‘Underwear Bomber,’ Kim Philby, and Other Notorious Double Agents | The Daily Beast | May 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt remains to be seen whether MI5 and MI6 will have their way.
Smoke and Mirrors in the British Battle Over ‘Secret Justice’ | Cori Crider | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for 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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