FOREIGN spies tried to get Brits working in tech, science and business to leak secrets 10,000 times in the past five years, MI5 says. And the worrying surge in hostile states trying to steal secret…
Foreign spies tried to get Brits to leak secrets 10,000 times in past five years, MI5 saysThe shock figure relates to “disguised approaches” from foreign agents, who were “seeking to manipulate” Brit experts.
This includes attempts to turn them into fully fledged agents of hostile states, as wells as efforts to lure them into passing on secrets, either knowingly or unwittingly.He will urge the public to be switched on about espionage in the same way the nation has adapted to the ever-present spectre of terrorism — and play its part in defeating it.
Mr McCallum, MI5’s youngest boss to date, warned: “UK victims of state espionage range way wider than just government.
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