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In 1924, MI6 intervened in the general election of that year by leaking the so-called Zinoviev letter to the Daily Mail, which published it on its front page on 25 October 1924. [40] The letter, which was a forgery, was supposedly from Grigory Zinoviev, the chief of the Comintern, ordering British Communists to take over the Labour Party.
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)/MI6 [49] – Foreign intelligence gathering and analysis. Defence Intelligence (DI) [50] – Military intelligence analysis. Signals intelligence Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [51] – Signals intelligence gathering and analysis. Criminal Intelligence and Protected Persons
The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service serves as the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also commonly known as MI6), which is part of the United Kingdom intelligence community. The chief is appointed by the foreign secretary, to whom they report directly. Annual reports are also made to the prime minister. [1]
China's Huawei poses such a grave security risk to the United Kingdom that the government must not allow it to have even a limited role in building 5G networks, a former head of Britain's MI6 ...
The Single Intelligence Account (SIA) is the funding vehicle for the three main security and intelligence agencies: the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), [44] Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [45] and the Security Service (MI5). [46] Spending on the SIA was £3.6 billion in financial year 2022/23. [47]
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 ...
MI6 is included as an alias on the Secret Intelligence Service website, though the official abbreviation, SIS, is predominant. While the names remain, the agencies are now responsible to different departments of state, MI5 to the Home Office , and MI6 the Foreign Office .
Alongside funding proxy wars in Somalia, the CIA has also financed a secret prison in Mogadishu, run by the Somali National Security Agency (now the National Intelligence and Security Agency), but entirely reliant on the United States. According to Somali government officials, American agents operate unilaterally in the country.