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The windows in the SIS building are triple glazed for security purposes. Due to the sensitive nature of MI6's work, large parts of the building are below street level, with numerous underground corridors serving the building. [15] Amenities for staff include a sports hall, gymnasium, aerobics studio, a squash court and a restaurant.
The head of crime organisation SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, traps Agent 007 James Bond alongside the film's Bond girl Madeleine Swann inside the ruins of the building. Blofeld then detonated bombs planted in the building, demolishing what was left of it, though Bond managed to save Swann and escape before the explosion.
The building was used as Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) headquarters until the end of the First World War. [8] A blue plaque in Mansfield Smith-Cumming's name at the SIS headquarters at 2 Whitehall Court was unveiled on 30 March 2015. [8] 1 & 2 Whitehall Court are occupied by the Royal Horseguards Hotel.
BSC operated from the 35th and 36th floors of the International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York during World War II. British Security Co-ordination (BSC) was a covert organisation set up in New York City by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in May 1940 upon the authorisation of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
Between 1964 and 1994 the office block at 100 Westminster Bridge Road, then known as Century House, was home to the UK's overseas intelligence agency, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or more commonly MI6. [2] The building was refurbished and converted into the residential Perspective Building, designed by Assael Architecture. [3] in 2001.
MI6 is launching a recruitment drive to hire more spies from black and Asian backgrounds. MI6 job ‘more exciting than James Bond’ and not only for white men, spy says Skip to main content
This has been the actual headquarters of MI6: the Vauxhall Cross building on the Thames from GoldenEye (1995) onwards. Prior to that it was a nondescript building near Whitehall , sometimes ( Dr. No , On Her Majesty's Secret Service , The Living Daylights ) ostensibly the HQ of Universal Exports , the Secret Service's front company.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has alleged that the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 turned two staff members of unnamed Chinese central state organs into spies for the British government, its ...