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The Security Service, commonly known as MI5, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Servi
Thames House, London
Part of Thames House
Intelligence Services Memorial, Westminster Abbey, honouring all members of the UK's intelligence services since 1909. The inscription reads: "Recognising service at home and abroad protecting the United Kingdom".
Dame Stella Rimington, the first female Director General of MI5
Thames House
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Thames House is an office building in Millbank, London, on the north bank of the River Thames adjacent to Lambeth Bridge. Originally used as offices by Imperial Chemical Industries, it has served as t
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…smaller premises at 73–75 Queen's Gate in 1919, and then moved to 35 Cromwell Road in 1929, before transferring to the top floor of the South Block of Thames House on Millbank in 1934. The Service spent the first year of the Second World War at Wormwood Scrubs, before moving to Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, in…
View of Thames House from Millbank
Thames House on the left; Imperial Chemical House on the right.
The archway, showing the GMW infill extension built for MI5