What does Brexit mean for Britain's spies?
As the UK negotiates its future relationship with the EU, two former intelligence chiefs have warned that Britain's security expertise should not become a "bargaining chip".
When terror attacks hit Paris in late 2015, British intelligence scrambled to find out what it could about the attackers - at the UK's spy agency, GCHQ, a team worked on tracing their communications while MI5 looked for connections to the UK.
It was all a sign that modern threats - whether terrorism, cyber attacks or Russian subversion - rarely respect borders.
The Paris attacks showed that those responsible crossed borders with greater ease than information which might stop them. That led some to argue for closer co-operation, while others cited it as evidence of the need instead for stronger national border controls.
"Europe is going to be our security backyard forever," Sir John Sawers, a former head of MI6, told the BBC.
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