MI5 (like in the James Bond movies!) and more recently MI6 appear in the international news from time to time. Do they have different jobs or is there an overlap? Is it like the FBI and CIA distinction, or is there more to it than that?
2006-09-14 17:49:42 · 11 answers · asked by Bart S 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
MI departments are assigned specific tasks. MI5 is restricted to British territory internal security which is under the Home Office. MI6 is Secret Intelligence Service and has global authority. It started under the auspicious of Naval Intelligence which is why its agents were given naval rank. Lt-Commander James Bond. MI2 was war time code breakers if I remember while MI4 was given the job of handling, turning or eliminating Nazi agents in Great Britain during the War. Oddly enough MI5 may identify agents and terrorists but must call in the police or army for any physical activity, arrests etc. Most people forget that what seems to foreign soil isn't. Gibraltar and Northern Ireland was a real treat for the cowboys and if you look real hard the company learned all about "special prisons" from M!5 locations on the Channel Islands like Mann and Alderney.
2006-09-14 18:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Difference Mi5 Mi6
2017-01-13 10:35:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
MI5 is for internal intelligence and MI6 is for external intelligence.
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service or simply Six, is the United Kingdom's external security agency
SIS is responsible for the United Kingdom's espionage activities overseas, as opposed to MI5 which is charged with internal security within the UK.
2006-09-14 18:01:46 · answer #3 · answered by Subakthi D 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Straight from the horse's mouth:
The Security Service (MI5), based at Thames House in London, is the UK's security intelligence Agency, responsible for protecting the UK, its citizens and interests, at home and overseas, against the major threats to national security. Meanwhile, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), based at Vauxhall Cross in London, is primarily responsible for gathering intelligence outside the UK in support of the government's security, defence, foreign and economic policies.
2006-09-14 18:03:06 · answer #4 · answered by NC 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
you have it backwards... james bond was MI6.. MI6 is the international division of there "CIA" the MI5 is the internal division, kinda like the secret service... or the ATF
2006-09-14 17:57:38 · answer #5 · answered by MstrChief55 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MI5 operates within UK
M16 Operate out of UK
2006-09-14 17:58:08 · answer #6 · answered by HL2k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MI5 try to catch spies.
MI6 are spies.
2006-09-14 17:53:50 · answer #7 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it is like the FBI and CIA. One is domestic and one is international...
2006-09-14 17:57:27 · answer #8 · answered by the_fatmanwalksalone 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-14 17:51:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
that's what it sounds like.
2006-09-14 17:56:42 · answer #10 · answered by want it bad 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋