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UK spy chief urges public vigilance on foreign threats
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LONDON, 15 July 2021, (TON): The head of the MI5 intelligence agency said that the British public now needs to be as alert to covert infiltration by hostile countries as it is to terror threats.
Ken McCallum warned that it is wrong to believe that other nations represent only a threat to the UK government, organisations or high-profile individuals.
he said in an annual speech “over the past five years, we have seen over 10,000 disguised approaches from foreign spies to regular people in the UK, seeking to manipulate them.”
We see the UK’s brilliant universities and researchers having their discoveries stolen or copied; we see businesses hollowed out by the loss of advantage they’ve worked painstakingly to build.
Given half a chance, hostile actors will short-circuit years of patient British research or investment.
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