Security Service
Better known as MI5, the main British domestic intelligence service.
See also: Category:MI5
Contents
Structure
Senior Management
Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding give the following list of senior officers
- Director General (DG)
- Deputy Director General (DDG)
- Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)
- Legal Advisor to the Security Service[1]
Management Board
According to the MI5 website, the Director General, Deputy Director General and Legal Advisor make up the Management Board of the Service, along with seven branch Directors. The board is supplemented by two Non-Executive Directors from outside the Service in an advisory role.[2]
Branches
The following list is taken from the 2003 edition of Hollingsworth and Fielding's Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism and may now be somewhat dated.[3] This is supplemented with branch descriptions from the MI5 website in italics where these seem to match Hollingsworth and Fielding's account.[4]
- A Branch - Operational Support (Operational Capability)
- A1A: Technical Operations, such as covert entry and audio and video survellance.
- A1F: As above, but on longer term target sites.
- A2A: intercept transcription.
- A3 and A5: Technical support for operations, including specialised covert photography and lockpickers.
- B Branch - Human Resources (People and Security)
Related organisations
People
Directors General
- Major-General Sir Vernon Kell - 1909-1940
- Brigadier Oswald Allen Harker - 1940-1941
- Sir David Petrie - 1941-1946
- Sir Percy Sillitoe - 1946-1953
- Sir Dick White - 1953-1956
- Sir Roger Hollis - 1956-1965
- Sir Martin Furnival Jones - 1965-1972
- Sir Michael Hanley - 1972-1978
- Sir Howard Smith - 1978-1981
- Sir John Jones - 1981-1985
- Sir Antony Duff - 1985-1987
- Sir Patrick Walker - 1987-1992
- Dame Stella Rimington - 1992-1996
- Sir Stephen Lander - 1996-2002
- Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller - 2002-2007 [5]
- Jonathan Evans[6]
Notes
- ↑ Mark Hollinsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War on Terrorism, André Deutsch, 2003, pp.320-321.
- ↑ Organisation, MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.
- ↑ Mark Hollinsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War on Terrorism, André Deutsch, 2003, pp.320-321.
- ↑ Organisation, MI5, accessed 19 July 2009.
- ↑ MI5 - Former Directors General, accessed 26 February 2008.
- ↑ MI5 - Director General, accessed 26 February 2008.
