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MI5

abbreviation for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Military Intelligence, section five; a former official and present-day popular name for the counterintelligence agency of the British Government
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MI5

[ˌɛmaɪˈfaɪv] n abbr (British) (=Military Intelligence 5) → DST f
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MI5

(Brit) abbr of Military Intelligence, section 5 → MI5 m, Spionageabwehrdienst der britischen Regierung
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In his introduction the current director general, Jonathan Evans, describes MI5 as 'much more open' than it was then, but the transformation has been more fundamental.
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Ironically, it comes as MI5 prepare to set up a base in Wales for the first time later this year.
He is then thought to have run outside and 20 yards round the corner to the entrance to the lobby of MI5.
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The loyalists claimed their organisation was used by MI5 and MI6, backed up by British Army special forces, from 1972 to 1978 and again in 1985.
MI5 and police launched internal reviews to examine what was known about the perpetrators before the Westminster, Manchester Arena, London Bridge and Finsbury Park atrocities.
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