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• Centenary History
• http://www.mi5.gov.uk/about-us
• People
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• Director General
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• Where we work
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• Purpose and Values
• http://www.mi5.gov.uk/what-we-do
• Countering terrorism
• Countering state threats
• Protective security
• http://www.mi5.gov.uk/how-we-work
• Gathering intelligence
• Interception of communications
• Equipment interference
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• Covert Human Intelligence Sources
• Bulk data
• Analysing intelligence
• Law, oversight and ethics
• Evidence and disclosure
• Managing information
• Access to information by members of the public
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• http://www.mi5.gov.uk/our-history
• MI5's early years
• The establishment of the Secret Service Bureau
• World War I
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• Between the wars
• The inter-war years
• The Soviet threat between the wars
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• The Battle for Gibraltar
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• Hitler's last days
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• Terrorist threat in the 1980s
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• Since the Cold War
• The rise of the Islamist terrorist threat
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