MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief
MI5 said hostile-state cases have risen fourfold in a decade, with more than 50 Iran-linked arrests and AI now aiding plots.
- On Tuesday, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum warned that Iran is "ramping up attempts to hit harder targets," such as military sites in Britain, while Russia escalates hybrid warfare against Ukraine's allies.
- MI5 is now devoting more time to "state threats" than during the Cold War, McCallum said, as the agency confronts what he called "a new era of national security" comparable to post-9/11 transformation.
- Recently, two Iranians were charged with "preparing to commit an act of terrorism" targeting Manchester's Jewish community, allegedly identifying the Jewish Museum and Heaton Park Synagogue as potential targets.
- Russia remains "aggressor number one," McCallum said, employing tactics short of conventional conflict including attempted drone attacks on cargo planes and cyberattacks on energy infrastructure across Europe.
- British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday Tehran was "highly likely" behind a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, as McCallum characterized Iran as "the other state keen on subcontracting its UK violence.
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Britain's MI5 intelligence service today devotes more resources to countering threats from foreign countries than during the Cold War. The level of such threats is estimated to have quadrupled over the past decade. MI5 Director Sir Ken McCallum warned that the Tot's greatest danger was exposing Russia and Iran, and he also warned [...] The post British MI5 chief warns: Russia and Iran escalate hybrid war against the West first appeared on Nova24…
The British security service MI5 today invests more resources in suppressing threats from foreign countries than during the Cold War, warned its director, Sir Ken McCallum, BBC reports.
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