Norman Taylor

When you actually understand what the Secret Service does, if I was to take you around Secret Services and show you the various departments, you would be proud to be British.

I can tell you that now.

You'd be proud to be British.

You would walk out of that building...

And you would say I had no idea because there's a massive misconception about what the secret services actually do.

The primary reason they're established, it's not about we're running around doing things that are all cloak and dagger.

That's not what we're doing.

What we're doing is we're gathering intelligence.

We just don't want you to know how we're gathering that intelligence so it can't be replicated.

But the intelligence we're gathering is to protect society.

MI5 is gathering intelligence to protect the UK.

Right.

MI6 is gathering intelligence to protect our way of life in the United Kingdom.

And we're gathering that intelligence from overseas.

So typically MI6 will be overseas.

MI5 will be UK.

So what they were asking me to do is I came from a special risk background.

So I was dealing daily with war, terrorism, political violence, kidnap for ransom, that kind of stuff.

They knew that.

I was also doing some stuff for special forces, which was intelligence on markets that they may well be operating in.