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Monday, February 5, 2018

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What does Brexit mean for Britain's spies?


Policeman with gun and tape near Bataclan
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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