LONDON (Reuters) - London Olympic Games preparatory work has been Britain's intelligence agencies in the heavy pressure, as a national stage its biggest ever peacetime security operation, members of Congress said on Thursday.
In its annual review, the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, said, "base" organizations and groups together against the armed groups in the Northern Ireland peace agreement, also caused the most important threat.
Oversight of intelligence agencies provided by the Commission, said the success of counter-terrorism work, payment of dividends.
Safety Authority that there are signs of cautious optimism, attacks on national security goal of decline in 2011, said: "Malcolm Rifkind, Chairman of the Committee.
However, the July 27 start of the Olympic Games, intense work, you must Military Intelligence of the domestic intelligence agency working pressure, and all the relevant serious challenges.
Review: the revolution in the entire Arab world "Arab Spring" has dominated the work of the British security agencies caught by surprise in 2011 the development of many within the intelligence community.
Rifkind said: "We express our appreciation, it is often impossible to predict such events".
"But is still a question whether, once the activity is commenced, the possibility that institutions should expect turmoil will spread rapidly in the region."
Last month, MI5, Jonathan Evans, warned in his first two years of public speech, the "base" militants use in countries in the Arab countries as a base to employ Western youth on the United Kingdom attack to overthrow the leaders of the spring.
"The security services have been reprioritised its work, so that they can deal with the potential threat from the" base "organizations and their subsidiary bodies; Republican dissidents (Ireland); hostile countries and others run during the Olympics, Rifkind said . "
The burden of a combination of the assessment process (Olympics) and related work, the security services, under significant pressure in the past year
The committee also said that cyber attacks by the British security serious risk and questioned plans for the ? 6.5 million National Information Security announced plans 18 months ago has made enough progress.
"If we want to maintain this fast-paced field need to do more, Rifkind said.
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