ISC: "We have not been provided with any post-referendum assessment of Russian attempts at interference. This situation is in stark contrast to the US handling of allegations of Russian interference ... where an intelligence community assessment was produced within two months" 
"written evidence provided to us appeared to suggest that HMG had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes or any activity that has had a material impact on an election" docs.google.com/a/independent.… "not ... sought"???
ISC: "Twenty years ago, MI5 devoted around 20% of its effort to Hostile State Activity ... by 2008/09, only 3% of effort was allocated by MI5 to all its work against Hostile State Activity. t was not until 2013/14 that effort began to increase significantly, rising to 14.5%"
UK foreign secretary to ISC: "One of my concerns is that some of the short-term problems that Russia is causing us that we are having to address is ... crowding out thinking that we need to be doing on the longer-term changes to the international order, namely the rise of China"
ISC notes the increasing technological challenge to traditional human intelligence:
ISC: "It is the difficulty of recruiting Russian agents with the right accesses, and the careful planning, tradecraft and operational security around any prospective agents ... which means that it takes a relatively long time for intelligence efforts to produce results."
"HMG does not deploy effects with the goal of effecting organisational collapse [of Russia], in the way that they might be deployed against international terrorist groups". Notes also "need to tread carefully so as not to provoke unexpected escalation" docs.google.com/a/independent.…
My guess is that the redacted word here is "disruption" or "disruptive", referring to covert actions and similar. Fits that such work increased post-Salisbury.
ISC: "The current legislation enabling action against foreign spies is acknowledged to be weak. In particular, the Official Secrets Acts are out of date – crucially, it is not illegal to be a foreign agent in this country [Britain]" docs.google.com/a/independent.…
This sums it up, really. "In response to our request for written evidence at the outset of the Inquiry, MI5 initially provided just six lines of text." docs.google.com/a/independent.…
