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19 hours ago · Ellis went on to a distinguished career during and after World War II. He was, notably, the second in command at British Security Coordination (BSC), the massive MI6 station based in New York, intended first to get America into the war by hook or by crook and then to prod the Roosevelt Administration into creating something like MI6.
2 days ago · British Security Co-ordination, the WWII operation headed by William Stephenson in the Americas, set up by MI6; Camp X, training facility in Canada for clandestine operators during WWII
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- Single Intelligence Account £3.711 billion (2021–22)
- 4 July 1909; 114 years ago
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May 13, 2024 · During his time as chief of the British Security Coordination (BSC), Stephenson—in addition to running hit teams— dished British secrets to FDR, trained agents in Europe, sent American secrets back to Churchill, and is credited with shifting US public opinion away from isolationism during World War II and toward interventionism.
May 2, 2024 · Linked closely with the British Security Coordination (BSC), overseen by the astute William Stephenson, Camp X served as a pivotal nexus in the web of transatlantic intelligence operations.
2 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.
- 22 July 1940 – 15 January 1946
- United Kingdom
- Approximately 13,000 employees
1 day ago · The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at the beginning of World War II as deputy to William Stephenson at British Security Coordination (BSC) and helped set up for William Donovan the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), what would eventually evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
3 days ago · Coordinates: 51°53′58″N 2°07′28″W. Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. [2] .
