How To Infiltrate An Embassy

First, try removing your MI5 name badge. From The Independent:

In the immediate aftermath of 11 September, while Tony Blair was publicly praising the role of Pervez Musharraf's regime in helping to combat Islamic terrorism, MI5 was busy infiltrating the Pakistani High Commission in London. Agents disguised as workmen removed documents, tracked staff and attempted to plant bugs.

The course of events appeared at times to be a version of Carry On Spying. MI5, it is claimed, failed to return calls left on its emergency hotline; did not discover that the agent it had recruited for the mission had a history of psychiatric problems; an officer arrived for a "secret" meeting in the street forgetting to remove her MI5 identification badge; another, who had already infiltrated the High Commission, risked the security of the operation by returning for a second attempt in another guise.

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