Article: BOOK OF THE WEEK ESPIONAGE After a century of spying on others MI5 has decided to spill some of its own secrets, says Andrew Lownie

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 30, 1,032 pp

As the role of MI5 has changed in recent years from counter- espionage to counter-terrorism, it has required greater public support and understanding and has recognised the need for greater openness. Since 1992 recruitment, for example, has been through advertising in newspapers and the identity of the Director General has also been revealed. There has been a growing recognition too that intelligence has hitherto been the missing dimension in telling our country's history, with the result that more than 4,000 MI5 files have been deposited in the National Archives over the ...

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