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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 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.
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.
The decryption of the Zimmermann Telegram was described as the most significant intelligence triumph for Britain during World War I, [1] and one of the earliest occasions on which a piece of signals intelligence influenced world events. [2] The Imperial War Cabinet was the British Empire's wartime coordinating body.
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The international world order is under threat in a way not seen since the Cold War, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned.. In the first joint op-ed penned by the leaders of the British and ...
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 ...
During World War I, British secret services were divided into numbered sections named Military Intelligence, department number x, abbreviated to MIx, such as MI1 for information management. The branch, department, section, and sub-section numbers varied through the life of the department; examples include: