MI5

James Bond interviewed informants in nightclubs and luxury hotels. Le Carré's George Smiley preferred park benches or safe houses in Belgravia. But when Bisher Al-Rawi met the men from MI5, they chose somewhere more prosaic: a table in the basement section of McDonald's in Kensington, West London.

LONDON, July 26 (UPI) -- A British parliamentary committee criticized the MI5 domestic and MI6 foreign intelligence agencies over its intelligence sharing with the United States.

MILLIONS of Londoners are being used as guinea-pigs in secret chemical warfare experiments. They are being sprayed with a gas that pressurises tennis balls to see how it travels in the air. And the findings will help deal with poison gas or biological attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists.