KGB Infiltrates MI5 on the Hotline LONDON, May 24 (Reuter) - Would-be James Bonds bidding to join Britain's secret service got a shock when they phoned the job application line -- Russia's KGB said it had taken over. More than 20,000 hopefuls inundated the recruitment firm hired by Britain's security service MI5 after it placed its first ever advertisement for recruits in a national newspaper earlier this week. But they got a shock when greeted by a caller on the firm's taped answering message saying: "Hello my name is Colonel Blotch. "I am calling on behalf of the KGB. We have taken over MI5 because they are not secret anymore and they are a very crap (useless) organisation." Interior ministry officials said on Saturday that they had launched an investigation into how a prankster apparently altered the taped message. In an unprecedented advertisement in the Guardian newspaper, MI5 sought applicants for what it called "a very special part of Her Majesty's Government -- the Security Service". Discretion was advised for the spies of tomorrow with the advertisement telling hopefuls: "Try and avoid telling your friends about your application because discretion is a serious part of working for the security Service." (c) Reuters Limited 1997 REUTER NEWS SERVICE