MI5’s “MI5: Official Secrets” exhibition at The National Archives showcases 115 years of espionage history. Highlights include a 110-year-old lemon used by a spy and reports about the Cambridge Five. Director Ken McCallum reinforces the differences between real intelligence work and fictional portrayals. The exhibition opens on Saturday and runs until September.
MI5 launches an exhibition, “MI5: Official Secrets,” in collaboration with The National Archives, showcasing its 115 years of history. The exhibition aims to provide transparency, featuring actual spying equipment and methods used throughout the agency’s existence. Director General Ken McCallum emphasized that real intelligence work involves “ordinary human beings together doing extraordinary things.”
Highlights of the exhibition include a 110-year-old lemon, which was used as evidence against German spy Karl Muller, executed in 1915 for writing secret messages in lemon juice during WWI. Other displays consist of confessions and surveillance reports linked to the Cambridge Five, infamous double agents spying for the Soviets from the 1930s to the 1950s.
McCallum notes that the actualities of MI5’s work often differ from fictional portrayals in literature and television. The exhibition opens Saturday at The National Archives in southwest London and will be on display until September, inviting the public to delve deeper into the world of espionage.
The MI5 exhibition promises insight into Britain’s intelligence history, contrasting real-life agents with fictional representations. Key highlights include a historical piece of evidence from WWI and documentation of infamous spies. The initiative aims to foster transparency about the agency’s operations and the nature of intelligence work. The exhibition is set to run until September at The National Archives.
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