It’s not often someone gets a look into MI5. It’s because it’s kept at arms length.
This was not a good thing. It lacked scrutiny from the top. Successive governments were kept in the dark and left out in the cold.
The troubles of the UK’s only domestic intelligence and security agency should be dealt with swiftly. It’s to ensure top flight security is provided for every citizen.
It would protect us from serious crime, for a start.
However, times were tough for the UK. It didn’t deliver. It had an obsession with organised crime. It ran more networks than we discovered.
It was guilty for more lawbreaking – and suffering.
The main problem is its network of support. These operatives didn’t focus on their work. One said, “To be born here was a curse.”
He took advantage of his role. They took advantage of others.
Unlike before, Agents were exposed to the elements. Many struggled with hunger. Many more with ill-health. Still more were taken hostage.
It resulted in this because people took cover in crime.