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4 days ago · 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.
5 days ago · Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II.
3 days ago · Was the longest serving spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) really a triple agent? Or was he the victim of Cold War paranoia? Join International Spy Museum Historian and Curator Dr. Andrew Hammond in conversation with Jesse Fink, author of The Eagle in the Mirror: The Greatest Spy Story Never Told to discuss the mysterious ...
May 5, 2024 · At the time, in the early 1980s, London was crawling with spies from the Soviet intelligence agencies KGB and GRU; in turn, MI6 had its people in Moscow – albeit far fewer. But the prize, of...
1 day ago · Sidney George Reilly MC (/ ˈ r aɪ l i /; c. 1873 – 5 November 1925), known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS).
Apr 29, 2024 · By contrast, Britain’s MI6 and its domestic counterpart M15 have a combined staff of about 9,000, according to the most recent data available. In addition, Beijing runs sprawling cyber ...
5 days ago · REVIEW — What you need to know about Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis is that the MI6 officer had a rich and varied career spanning both world wars, to include helping to lay the foundations of OSS, and that he may have confessed to selling secrets to the Nazis in the 1930s. This book hones in on that alleged transaction.
