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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Growing pangs of Britain's spy agencies

The annual Intelligence and Security Committee report provides one of the few glimpses into the normally secret world of Britain's intelligence agencies. The insights it provides are a mix of the serious, the strange and the more mundane.
Britain's intelligence and security services have been growing fast since 9/11 but that process has not always been straightforward. According to the report, the growth has created concerns "that aspects of key intelligence and security work are suffering as a consequence of the focus on counter-terrorism priorities" and the committee calls for possible separate, additional funding to maintain capabilities in other areas.
MI5 has expanded fast, particularly into the regions. New offices were opened in the South East and Wales in 2006/7 - and by 2008, regional stations will house three times the number of staff originally planned, the report reveals.

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This article is just a little peak inside a vast wonder of the worlds. Britain is massively expanding their security systems and are working more tightly with the United States . Want to see what the US has been up to that you probably dont know about Click Here. Notice there are no citations on that article.

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