Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!violet.berkeley.edu!sunghou
From: sunghou@violet.berkeley.edu (Sung-Hou KimGroup)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Spycatcher
Message-ID: <6448@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 5 Jan 88 03:21:15 GMT
References: <22340@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <700@mplvax.nosc.MIL>
Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: sunghou@violet.berkeley.edu (Sung-Hou KimGroup)
Organization: Sex, Violence and Terror, Ltd., Berkeley
Lines: 13
Summary: Quick info on MI5 & MI6

Ok, this is just as I remember from lots of places:
MI5 is concerned with domestic intelligence and counter-intelligence.
MI6 is concerned with foreign intelligence.
Interestingly, neither has the powers of arrest, as say the FBI, they must
go through the Special Branch of Scotland Yard.

By the way, what was the reason the British wanted Spycatcher supressed?
The bit about Roger Hollis is really old.  There was a book, a while ago called
Too Secret, Too Long by Chapman Pincher (more or less) which was just about
Hollis being a Soviet spy.


		Michael Matsko at sunghou@violet.berkeley.edu