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Transcript: MI5 History Book Stirs Debate On Spy Secrets
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STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
10-06-2009
MI5 History Book Stirs Debate On Spy Secrets
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 10:00-11:00 AM
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STEVE INSKEEP, host:
One key agency tracking terror suspects is the subject of a new book, a hefty history of the MI5, the British domestic spy agency which is marking its 100th anniversary. This book is the first authorized history of any Western intelligence agency. Allowing an academic to write it and comb through the agency's files has raised some questions in Britain about why the agency's secrets shouldn't be kept secret.
NPR's Rob Gifford reports from London.
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