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Spooks Working Overtime
By EURSOC Three
13 November, 2006
Britain's counter-espionage field officers are working double-shifts
these days. The secret security service, better known as MI5, have
their official HQ at Millbank, not far along the Thames from the
Houses of Parliament.
Their Secret Intelligence Service counterpart, MI6, is across the
river, opposite the Tate Gallery at Vauxhall Cross.
But the real work today, some would say, is conducted by MI5 -
Although rival MI6 might disagree.
MI5's covert surveillance office is known as 'K branch' and is
located underground near the British Museum.
There are some very sophisticated listening devices in the basement
designed to help protect ordinary citizens who might be in danger.
Sometimes, without an warrant from the Home Secretary, they tap
phones if necessary.
If things could get worse, they are getting worse. As someone once
said, never underestimate worse.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of MI5, who rarely speaks in
public, says that since the 7 July bombings in London a five further
major conspiracies have been thwarted.
Officials say over 1,600 individuals are under surveillance. The
representatives claim that the UK could be under threat by chemical
or biological agents, radioactive materials and even nuclear technology.
Dame Eliza's analysis to a selected audience was grim: "We are aware
of numerous plots to kill people and to damage our economy." The
chief of MI5 said that at least 30 plots have been identified so far.
The head of the UK's chartered security service added: "Many of these
plots... were linked to al-Qaeda."
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller's comments come days after a British
citizen was sentenced to 40 years in jail for planning an attack on the UK.
The prime minister Tony Blair says that he is in agreement with Dame
Eliza 's evaluation, and that the terrorrist threat to the United
Kingdom would last for a generation
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