Discover what it’s like for school leavers joining MI5 through our “I Can” Campaign. If you want to do a job that really matters, and where you matter too, MI5 has a role for you.

Sep 14, 2024 · MI5 is looking for potential spies with just one GCSE, providing the qualification is in English and it's a grade 4 or above. Spymasters hope to recruit dozens of school leavers or older...

Spies working for states fall into two categories: intelligence officers and agents. Intelligence officers are members of intelligence services. They will be highly trained in espionage...

MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), [2] officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).

Jan 14, 2025 · The training manual’s blend of practical guidance and dry wit offers a rare glimpse into the daily grind of wartime espionage, revealing a world far removed from the glamour of spy fiction.

Oct 19, 2016 · Thames House is the current HQ of MI5 – the UK's national security intelligence agency. Found on Millbank at the end of Lambeth Bridge, Thames House was once occupied by many tenants ...

MI5 would run a check on them too to determine their loyalty. Potential agents were sent to one of a dozen country houses around the Britain for an initial two- or three-week course focusing on physical fitness, elementary map reading and basic training with pistols and sub-machine guns.

Jul 2, 2021 · Spying ain’t what it used to be. The head of MI5 this week revealed that the “tap on the shoulder” recruitment method is no more. Gone are the days when reliable recruiters, hidden among Oxbridge...

Apr 25, 2021 · SECURITY service MI5 is taking on teenage apprentice spies straight from the playground. The shadowy department, which looks after homeland security, has traditiona­lly recruited super-clever university graduates.

Jan 14, 2025 · Despite advances in electronic surveillance, security service MI5 still relies on human ‘watchers’. Government documents reveal what it takes to follow suspects without being detected.