CLASSIC: Is MI5 a Criminal Organization?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Also known as the Security Service, MI5 is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, dealing with threats inside the kingdom. However, recent revelations have shown that, in some cases, the organization may have helped to aid and abet some crimes in the course of (theoretically) preventing others. Tune in to learn more about the morally grey world of covert operations and MI5.

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0:00.0	fellow conspiracy realist, we return to you mere humble farmers with another classic episode.
0:06.8	This one is a doozy. We're entering the world of tradecraft morally gray political thrillers situations.
0:19.0	M. I. I'm trying. Are they a criminal organization?
0:23.6	I'm striking.
0:24.6	Y'all, I have been knee-deep in this Apple TV series called Slow Horses
0:30.7	with Gary Oldman and some other fantastic cast members and it is about
0:35.7	MI5 and it really speaks to this exact thing like some of this political
0:40.2	maneuvers that these folks in charge of MI5 perpetrate in this series, which I believe is based
0:46.1	on a book series that was written by somebody with inside information about the inner workings of
0:50.7	MI5. Absolutely staggering staggering, reckless, psychotic, megalomaniacal behavior.
0:57.0	No account for human life outside of just one's own political motivations and or covering one's own ours as they say.
1:06.7	For crown and country guys.
1:08.7	What, M. I. 5, this is the one that's similar to the NSA, right? Not the FBI, but like
1:15.6	National Security Agency in the U.S.
1:17.8	Security Services, I believe is what they're called over there, yes.
1:20.4	Okay, but like internal.
1:22.1	100 percent.
1:23.0	Okay.
1:24.0	Yeah, yeah, not to be confused with M. I.
1:26.0	6, which is a different thing.
1:29.0	M. 5 investigates national security.
1:31.0	Internally, though. Right. Like. C. C. A. C. A.
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