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The debut speech by Jonathan Evans, who became head of MI5 in April, would have excited interest simply for its rarity value. For most Britons, his Nov. 5 appearance provided their first glimpse of the 49-year-old career spy from an ordinary background (his grandfather was a bus driver...
Evans' choice of audience would have also generated comment. He delivered his speech, which had prior approval from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, to the Society of Editors, a group dedicated to the preservation of media freedoms. The date of the speech added further piquancy: Evans addressed his audience on...
Against this backdrop, Evans' speech itself could have seemed an anticlimax, the gray bureaucratic musings of a gray bureaucrat. Instead, it packed a hefty punch, revealing a new assessment of the scale of the terror threat facing the U.K. and the conflicting demands placed on his organization as it works...
Al-Qaeda and related groups remain the primary threat. Last year, MI5 said it had identified 1,600 people actively involved in terrorism in the U.K. Evans says that number has now risen to "at least 2,000." The increase, Evans said, "is partly because our coverage of the extremist...
Another problem was to recruit the necessary staff. MI5 is expanding and will have 4000 staff by 2011. They may not, however, reflect the diversity of the population they are expected to protect. Two of Evans' last three predecessors were women, but the numbers of female applicants to the Security...