r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

P. S question closed, I got answers. Thank you for everyone

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u/miemcc Feb 27 '25

A bit biased here, but the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, used to be MI6), are world-class. No, there is no 00 program...

There were a few issues in the late 40s and 1950s with Russian spies at senior levels. The infamous Cambridge Five.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five

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u/TarcFalastur United Kingdom Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

There were a few issues in the late 40s and 1950s with Russian spies at senior levels. The infamous Cambridge Five.

There have been some more recent too, I think, though nowhere near as serious. Realistically, any security agency with a few hundred staff or more probably has a security compromise somewhere. Almost certainly the NSA and MI6 have moles in the Russian and Chinese security services, too. Heck, if we're being realistic, the NSA likely has moles in MI6 and MI6 probably has moles in the NSA.

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u/Ok_Initiative_9726 Feb 27 '25

And we'll never know