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MI5
[ em-ahy-fahyv ]
noun
- the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
MI5
abbreviation for
- Military Intelligence, section five; a former official and present-day popular name for the counterintelligence agency of the British Government
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Word History and Origins
Origin of MI51
M(ilitary) I(ntelligence, Section) 5
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Example Sentences
Are you unaware of the role agent provocateurs, special branch and MI5 have played in undermining us?
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At Risk By Stella Rimington The first novel by the best spy storyteller today, the former head of MI5.
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At the start of the war, on the orders of his Soviet handler, he successfully “coat trailed” his way into MI5.
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Arthur Owens spent years in exile, reviled as a Nazi spy, but he actually was a double agent working with MI5.
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It remains to be seen whether MI5 and MI6 will have their way.
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