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From 1909 and through the war the Service had a variety of names including the 'Foreign Intelligence Service', the 'Secret Service', 'MI1(c)', the 'Special Intelligence Service' and even 'C's...
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners. SIS is one of the British intelligence ...
Sep 21, 2010 · The most detailed and authoritative history of the first forty years (1909-1949) of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, is published today.
Oct 25, 2024 · MI6, formally the Secret Intelligence Service, British government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and appropriate dissemination of foreign intelligence. It has existed in various forms since the establishment of a secret service in 1569 by Sir Francis Walsingham.
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Sep 21, 2010 · The job of a secret service is to steal other people's secrets and protect its own. But the British Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, has come clean about its early years.
Sep 21, 2010 · MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is published on Tuesday. A book detailing the first 40 years of MI6, the UK's foreign intelligence service, is published.
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ABOUT US. Founded in 1909, SIS (or MI6) exists to protect the UK’s people, economy and interests from overseas threats. We help other countries with whom we share values of democracy,...
