Word: mi6
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...road between Battersea and Vauxhall, known for, among other things, its bus station, a large supermarket and one of London's busiest gay saunas. The new location will, however, place the embassy closer to the British parliament at Westminster, and is within walking distance from the headquarters of MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service...
...included was the conspiracy theory that Dodi's father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, has been pushing from the start, claiming that Prince Philip had ordered Britain's intelligence service, MI6, to orchestrate the crash and kill the two lovers. Baker explained throughout the entire inquest that he had not seen "a shred of evidence" to prove that the Duke of Edinburgh or the British intelligence service were behind the crash, so he was legally obliged not to offer "staged accident" as a possible verdict. But even with murder off the table, the panel decided to assign responsiblity...
Espionage is a secretive business, but in recent years a little light has penetrated the murk surrounding the U.K.'s two main security agencies. The Security Service (better known as MI5 and tasked with internal security), and its sister organization, the Secret Intelligence Service (also called MI6 and concerned with external intelligence), have set up their own websites and now advertise openly for new recruits. But this new transparency has strict limits. Much of the agencies' work is covert and British spymasters seldom venture into the full glare of public attention...
...indicated to us that she was either about to or wished to get engaged. Her last conversations with friends and confidantes were to the contrary." So even if dark forces were bugging her phone, and the British establishment or the Queen or Prince Philip or the head of MI6 were horrified at the prospect of a non-white, Muslim half-brother to the future King of England, they would have had no impetus at that stage to put a murder plot in motion...
...Stevens's inquiry interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected over 600 exhibits and used new computer technology to reconstruct the path of the 1994 Mercedes inside the Paris tunnel where it crashed. His investigators spoke to the head of MI5 (British domestic intelligence) and MI6 (foreign intelligence) as well as Prince Charles, who was reportedly even asked whether he had plotted to assassinate his ex-wife. The CIA and other U.S. agencies were asked for information. Stevens said the huge report and its public release were intended to show how systematically the investigators went about their business, so that there...