Visiting the secret state: Margaret Thatcher and Intelligence
Posted by:
Dr Dan Lomas, Posted on:
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Categories:
Cabinet Secretaries, FCDO Historians, Intelligence Services, Intelligence Services, Past prime ministers
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An early task of any new Prime Minister is to familiarise themselves with the UK's intelligence agencies – the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Security Service (MI5). Yet, for all the interest they may have …