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MI5

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The Security Service, commonly known as MI5, is the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of the intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS). All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). The service has a statutory basis in the Security Service Act of 1989 and the UK Intelligence Services Act of 1994, but it has existed as MI5 since 1914. Its responsibilities includes the protection of British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, and fighting serious crime, militant separatism, terrorism and espionage within the UK. While mainly concerned with internal security, it does have an overseas role in support of its mission.

The service has had a national headquarters at Thames House on Millbank in London since 1995, drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility. Thames House is shared with the Northern Ireland Office and is also home to the Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre, a subordinate organization to the Security Service.

Within the civil service community the Security Service is colloquially known as Box 500 (after its official wartime address, P.O. Box 500) or simply Five.

For a full description of the real-world agency, see the article at Wikipedia.

In TV Superheroes

Carl Devereaux is a former MI5 agent who came up against mercenary Vasily Koronkiewicz. Koronkiewicz cut off both of his hands in an act of malice and intimidation.

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