MI5 chief makes desperate plea urging nerds to help join the fight against ISIS

THE head of MI5 called on real-life Qs to join the fight on ISIS yesterday — as he warned it is here to stay.

Spy chief Andrew Parker said scientists, maths whizzes and computer nerds played a “crucial part” in smashing 12 terror plots in the past three years.

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In a speech to the Royal Society, Mr Parker warned the ISIS threat would last “at least” a generation.

He said: “MI5 has a vital dependence on the best and brightest minds to help us stop these threats. Scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians play a crucial part.

“I pay tribute to them and I call upon others to consider a career in British intelligence.”

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MI5’s techies constantly invent ways to break secret message systems although, unlike MI6’s Q in James Bond, weapons are not in the brief.

Mr Parker also warned about the threat of Russia, saying: “It is using its whole range of state organs and powers to push its foreign policy abroad in increasingly aggressive ways.”