MI5 G Branch
G Branch is the division of MI5 dealing with international counter-terrorism. Domestic and Irish terrorism is the responsibility of T Branch.[1]
History
G Branch was the name of the investigations branch in Vernon Kell's original organisation of MI6 in 1916.[2]
The modern G Branch was created in 1988, when the former FX branch was renamed.[3]
In 1990 G Branch's responsibility for Irish terrorism was hived off to the new T Branch.[4]
In 1995, G Branch appointed a desk officer to study the problem of radicalization in the British Muslim community.[5]
Directors
- Stella Rimington 1988-1990[6]
- Jonathan Evans 2001-2005[7]
Organisation
G2
- G2P: Counter-proliferation
G3
- Annie Machon worked in G3 from August 1995 to October 1996.
- G3A: C-ordination of threat assessments.
- G3C: Countering threats from South Asia, e.g. Sikh militants.
- G3W: International terrorist threats not covered by other sections.
G5
- G5 Stephen Lander, C.1990.[8] Lander was subsequently head of T5, so the whole section may have moved to the new T Branch.
G6
- G6: G Branch agent runners.
G9
- G9 Jonathan Evans, c.appointed autumn 1998.[9]
- G9A: Libya, Iraq, Palestinian and Kurdish groups
- G9B: Iranian state and Iranian dissident groups.
- G9C: Islamic extremists.[10]
Notes
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.864.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.84.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.745.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.772.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.805.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.772.
- ↑ MI5 deputy due to start top post, BBC News, 20 April 2007.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.748.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.806.
- ↑ Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War on Terrorism, André Deutsch, 2003, pp.320-321.
