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A 10 August 1909 letter from the Director of Naval Intelligence, Alexander Bethell, to then-Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming offered him a "new billet": the opportunity to head the Foreign Section of the new Secret Service Bureau. Cumming was to begin in this role on 1 October 1909, but bureaucratic and funding obstacles delayed the start of ...
In 1956, SIS Director John Sinclair had to resign after the botched affair of the death of Lionel Crabb. [84] SIS activities included a range of covert political actions, including the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadeq in Iran in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état (in collaboration with the US Central Intelligence Agency). [85]
SIS Group Enterprise [2] (formerly Security and Intelligence Services (India)) is a private security firm in India, Australia and New Zealand.It was set up in 1985 by Ravindra Kishore Sinha who is an Indian billionaire businessman and journalist.
Richard Moore was born in Tripoli, Libya, on 9 May 1963. [3] He married Margaret Martin (Maggie) in 1985, with whom he has had a son and a daughter. [3]Moore's grandfather Jack Buckley served as a soldier of the Irish Republican Army from 1916 to 1922 in Cork, Ireland, and was awarded a medal by Sinn Féin for fighting against British rule.
In March Nilantha Jayawardena was appointed as the SIS director. [10] In December 2019 the newly elected president Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Brigadier Suresh Sallay, the former head of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, as the head of SIS. Sallay is the first director of the SIS to come from Military Intelligence instead of the Police ...
Nigel Norman Inkster CMG (born April 1956) [1] [2] is the former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6), [3] [4] and was until June 2017 the Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Inkster remains a ...
Sarah Miro Fischer’s debut feature, “The Good Sister,” debuts in the Panorama section at this year’s Berlinale, and Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s trailer.
Sir Robert John Sawers (born 26 July 1955) is a British intelligence officer, diplomat and civil servant. He was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), [1] a position he held from November 2009 until November 2014. [2]