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Ken McCallum told an annual threat update that Moscow tried to sway the 2016 vote through social media trolls and Russian-owned broadcasters, while stressing the attempts had little effect on the outcome.
Sir Ken McCallum says MI5's counter-terrorism and state-threat missions are now "pretty much of equal scale", with foreign adversary threats having quadrupled, and names Russia as "aggressor number one".
Military bases across Britain are on high alert after an alleged terrorist plot targeting RAF Fairford, with the prime minister saying there were "strong indications that Iran played a part".
