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	Secret Intelligence Service
		Often known by its initials, SIS is one of the British secret service agencies.
		It was unable to penetrate Germany itself, but had some significant successes in military and commercial intelligence, mostly achieved with agent networks in neutral countries, occupied territories, and Russia.
		Its most famous operation of the war was a spectacular failure known as the Venlo incident (after the Dutch town where much of the action took place), in which SIS was thoroughly duped by agents of the German secret service, the Abwehr, posing as high-ranking Army officers involved in a plot to depose Hitler.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/MI-6.html (629 words)

	Secret Intelligence Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Service is derived from the Secret Service Bureau, which was founded in 1909.
		It was a joint initiative of the Admiralty and the War Office to control secret intelligence operations in the UK and overseas, particularly concentrating on the activities of the Imperial German government.
		Agents of the German army secret service, the Abwehr, posed as high-ranking officers involved in a plot to depose Hitler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Head_of_the_Secret_Intelligence_Service (2888 words)

	Secret Intelligence Service MI6 - UK Intelligence Agencies
		The Secret Intelligence Service, sometimes known as MI6, originated in 1909 as the Foreign Section of the Secret Service Bureau, under RNR Commander, later Captain, Sir Mansfield Cumming, which was responsible for gathering intelligence overseas.
		With the passing of the Intelligence Services Act, SIS was placed on a statutory footing under the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary to whom it is responsible for all aspects of its work.
		The Service's principal role is the production of secret intelligence in support of Her Majesty's Government's security, defence, foreign and economic policies within the framework of requirements laid upon it by the JIC and approved by Ministers.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/uk/mi6/index.html (400 words)

	Rethink 'war on terror' strategy, says former MI6 head
		Intelligence analysts believe it is inconceivable that he didn't know about CIA rendition flights even though the first reports of the practice emerged as he retired from MI6 in May 2004.
		As the head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Richard never gave on-the-record comments and even had his identity obscured when he gave evidence to the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the government scientist Dr David Kelly in 2003.
		After 33 years in the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove was appointed head of the agency by Robin Cook in 1999 and served as chief until 2004 during one of the agencies most turbulent and controversial periods following 9/11 and the lead-up to the Iraq invasion in 2003.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/july2006/120706Rethink.htm (994 words)

	Admiral Sir Hugh 'Quex' Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Not a professional secret service officer, Sinclair was rather out of his depth at times, but he struggled to maintain the semblance of an effective intelligence service in the face of constant cost-cutting throughout the 1920s and 30s.
		He had mentioned fourteen wartime intelligence officers (some of whom still had SIS connections); he had disclosed the secret acronym MI1c (still used by Menzies and the military section of SIS); and he had revealed that passport control was used as a cover for secret service work.
		When the name is published in a spy thriller, the secret service is forced to leave and its former HQ becomes 'an asylum for the servants of bureaucracy who have been driven mad in the service of the country'.
	hometown.aol.com /FenianRam/hsinclair.html (2649 words)

	Tammy M. Proctor \| Family Ties in the Making of Modern Intelligence \| Journal of Social History, 39.2 \| The History ...
		Human intelligence, or the hard work of tapping into a "petty economy of information" at the local level, listening and gathering important information, and then conveying the intelligence to the proper authorities, was a task that often fell to insiders within a country, forcing recruitment of foreigners for this delicate work.
		While undoubtedly that played a role in her decision to enlist as a secret service agent for the British, she is better known for outspoken Belgian patriotism and her denunciation of the German occupation of her country.
		Likewise, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service in 1939 (the renamed foreign intelligence branch that Cumming headed in 1909), Stewart Menzies, had attended Eton, served briefly in the army, and was a sportsman.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jsh/39.2/proctor.html (7403 words)

	6 February 2004 article
		They are the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA); the National Security Agency (NSA), responsible for world-wide electronic eavesdropping and employing tens of thousands of people; the State Departmentís intelligence department (INR); the Department of Energyís intelligence department; and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), which operates many spy satellites.
		Americaís giant intelligence community was neutralised, while the decision to go to war was taken on the basis of highly ëpoliticisedí intelligence, much of it evidently bogus.
		It is to enquire into the quality of the intelligence which led to the war in Iraq but not into the use politicians made of this intelligence.
	www.mafhoum.com /press6/feb6.htm (1148 words)

	A Lifelong Engagement: Churchill and the Secret Service - The Churchill Centre
		His use of intelligence in World War II is widely known—and constantly revisited, as in the late James Rusbridger’s recent absurd claim that Churchill deliberately withheld vital codebreaking intelligence from Roosevelt prior to Pearl Harbor in order to ensure American entry into the war: absurd because there is no evidence for it.
		To the end of the war he gave the highest priority to all secret intelligence and devoured it, as he did all information, with undisguised curiosity— not always, I might add, to the comfort of his generals and advisers.
		The founder of the Secret Service that caught Graves, the politician who made it happen, was an Edinburgh lawyer.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=624 (1765 words)

	British spy chief faced internal opposition: report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A top British intelligence official who compiled a controversial dossier on Iraq's weaponry faced internal opposition when he was later made head of the country's overseas spy agency, a report said Friday.
		John Scarlett was now under pressure to resign as head of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, the Daily Telegraph reported.
		An inquiry team headed by Lord Butler found that much of the weapons information, notably that in a September 2002 dossier put together by the Joint Intelligence Service, then led by Scarlett, was unreliable.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040715234626.wsno44jw.html (269 words)

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		Although this arrangement was well-known among intelligence specialists as a cornerstone of the Cold War, a recent flurry of joint NSA-GCHQ activity shows that the arrangement is alive and kicking in the post-Cold War period.
		An official relationship between the Monitoring Service and the intelligence establishment existed only during World War II when Caversham was under the control of the Political Warfare Executive, but intelligence specialists often describe the BBCMS as a component of the British intelligence complex.
		Indications of intelligence leaks to Moscow concerning the U.S. atomic bomb Manhattan Project was a reason given for launching the Venona decryption project and the real beginning of "joint at the hip" cooperation since a British cryptographer was integrated into the U.S. team and the GCHQ was set up soon afterwards.
	www.blythe.org /Intelligence/readme/45UKUSA (1493 words)

	t r u t h o u t - British Government Admits 'Flaws' in Iraq Dossier
		Meanwhile, intelligence officers are holding a "smoking gun" showing they came under pressure for evidence to use against Iraq in the run-up to the conflict, it is reported.
		The Independent on Sunday says intelligence services were so concerned about demands made by Downing Street they kept detailed records of communications with the prime minister's staff.
		The paper claims senior intelligence officers were furious the document had been made up of their own information combined with other sources.
	www.truthout.org /docs_03/061003A.shtml (797 words)

	Brudirect.com - World Report
		Five days after a Senate committee lambasted US intelligence services for exaggerating the threat of Iraqi weapons, Lord Butler's report subjected British spy agencies to similarly tough scrutiny on Wednesday.
		Blair was not responsible for failures of British intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction ahead of the war to oust Saddam Hussein, the inquiry reported.
		Much of the British intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction used to justify the war against Saddam, was likely to have been unreliable, the report said.
	www.brudirect.com /DailyInfo/News/Archive/July04/150704/wn04.htm (577 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Q&A: The Butler intelligence inquiry
		The broad questions include: Were the sources for intelligence reliable and properly checked, did the government accept what it was being told too easily and why was it so forthright in its dossier on Iraq issued in September 2002.
		On the other hand, the House of Commons Committee on Intelligence and Security in a report last September was generally supportive of the intelligence community and of the government's position, though it was critical of some important details.
		The intelligence officials include John Scarlett, who was head of the Joint Intelligence Committee at the time (and has since been appointed head of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6) and Sir Richard Dearlove, head of M16 at the time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3878025.stm (782 words)

	Crunch time for Blair over Iraq intelligence
		The five-member Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, led by former top civil servant Lord Robin Butler, was scheduled to officially release its report at 12:30 pm (1130 GMT).
		However the merest suggestion that Blair or his ministers even tacitly encouraged intelligence chiefs to hype up the threat posed by Iraq's WMDs would be hugely damaging for the under-fire prime minister.
		John Scarlett, the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service -- commonly known as MI6 -- is especially tipped to be in the firing line.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040714015434.qnvzxmzx.html (604 words)

	BBC - Crime Fighters - MI6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As one of the leading intelligence agencies in the world, the work of the Secret Intelligence Service bears quite a close resemblance to the world of espionage populated by James Bond, but only because their operations are so covert.
		It wasn't until 1994, when the Intelligence Services Act was passed under the then Prime Minister John Major, that its official role was acknowledged and defined.
		Like their sister organisation MI5, the SIS was originally part of the Secret Service Bureau, which in 1909 divided to become MI5 and MI6 under the command of Captain Vernon Kell and Captain Mansfield Cumming respectively.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/mi6.shtml (707 words)

	Intelligence Online's Back Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the head of Israel's armed forces, gen. Shaul Mofaz, denied any Israeli involvement in an attack that cost the life of Hezbollah military leader Ali Dib, alias Khodr Salame, east of Saida on August 16 everything suggests the contrary.
		Financial circles in Bahamas make no secret over the fact that an OECD report in April, 1998 which slammed tax havens was a god-send to their nation.
		Richard Dearlove's arrival as head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in September in succession to David Spedding could prove a boon to a number of business intelligence companies which are in the good graces of MI6.
	www.intelligenceonline.com /ps/AN/Arch/INT/INT_364.asp?rub=archives (858 words)

	S.O.E. History
		The head of the Secret Intelligence Service in 1938 was Admiral Sinclair, known by the pseudonym C. In March of that year he had a Major L.D. Grand seconded from the Army to MI6.
		EH was headed by Sir Collin Cambell-Stuart, an acknowledged media expert and former Managing Director of The London Times.
		S.O.E. (the Special Operations Executive) was a British secret service formed in July 1940 – soon after the fall of France – to foster resistance among the civil population in Nazi-occupied Europe and to promote sabotage and subversion.
	www.64-baker-street.org /organisations/orgs_soe_history.html (603 words)

	Gulfnews: Patrick Seale: Riding on the wings of illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yet, it is hardly a secret that the chasm in transatlantic relations has never been wider and that most European leaders - and their publics - fervently pray that Bush will be defeated at next November's US presidential elections.
		In Britain, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) used to be a mysterious figure whose name and appearance were unknown to the public.
		America's intelligence budget, divided between 15 intelligence agencies, is estimated at $40 billion a year.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/04/06/11/123471.html (1142 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		Donovan's ascension to the head of American intelligence operations during World War II began in 1940 when his friend in the British intelligence service, William Stephenson (aka, "Intrepid"), lobbied President Roosevelt to send him to London on a top-secret fact-finding mission.
		The latter correctly saw in Donovan the one man who could establish an American intelligence service that would be vital to any future U.S. role in the war (and, as a consequence, to the fate of Britain).
		He had planned to establish an intelligence agency as a new branch of the FBI and bristled at the idea that another agency and man would get the responsibility (and the glory).
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=14852 (1228 words)

	World Media Watch on BuzzFlash.com
		Mr Scarlett, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, who takes over as "C" from Sir Richard Dearlove, was a vital witness for the Government in the Hutton inquiry, which cleared Mr Blair, senior ministers and officials of exaggerating the threat from Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction.
		It had been widely assumed that the deputy head of the service, Nigel Inkster, would be the successor.
		He was the person that stepped up and said there was no pressure put on the intelligence and security service to sex up the dossier; he was the one who said it was totally neutral, even though we know now that there were concerns in the intelligence services.
	www.buzzflash.com /mediawatch/04/05/wmw04051.html (2188 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Blair's Intel Chief Sought 'Lies' on WMD
		The new head of MI6 tried to persuade weapons inspectors in Iraq to harden up a report on their hunt for weapons of mass destruction, it was claimed yesterday.
		Mr Scarlett - who takes up his role as head of the secret intelligence service this week - sent a confidential email to the head of the ISG on 8 March with a list of 10 "golden nuggets" for possible inclusion in the report, it was claimed.
		Among the "nuggets" supposedly put forward by Mr Scarlett were claims that Saddam had a secret smallpox programme, that Iraq had developed mobile chemical weapons laboratories and that it possessed or was building a "rail gun" as part of a nuclear project.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/080304J.shtml (427 words)

	Military Intelligence (MI6)
		In an attempt to to solve the crisis, the heads of the governments of Germany, Britain, France and Italy met in Munich in September, 1938.
		When Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's head of state, who had not been invited to Munich, protested at this decision, Chamberlain told him that Britain would be unwilling to go to war over the issue of the Sudetenland.
		While in government service he carried out his duties ably and conscientiously, and I have no reason to conclude that Mr Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called "Third Man', if indeed there was one.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWm6.htm (2671 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Validation of human intelligence sources after war has thrown doubt on a high proportion of those sources and of their reports; and hence on the quality of the intelligence assessments received by ministers and officials in the period from summer 2002 to the outbreak of hostilities," in March 2003, it concluded.
		While the report had some criticisms of Sir John Scarlett, who coordinated intelligence efforts before the war, it recommended that he stay on in his new job as head of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6.
		Accepting "full responsibility" for any errors on the use of British intelligence on Iraq's unfound weapons, Blair said that evidence of Saddam's unfound weapons was "less certain, less well founded," than he had stated before the war.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2004-07/14/article05.shtml (856 words)

	Economist.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a report released two days earlier, America invaded Iraq on the strength of intelligence that was out-of-date, inaccurate, badly analysed and, in short, did not justify the nub of George Bush's case for war.
		The Senate found that the flotilla of intelligence agencies under Mr Tenet, the director of central intelligence, were gullible and incompetent, reflecting a “broken corporate culture and poor management”.
		After interviewing intelligence analysts involved in the drafting of a June 2002 agency paper, which examined possible links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the ombudsman found that about half a dozen spooks complained of coming under intense pressure from officials.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news1/economist2.html (2529 words)

	Lifting the Veil on the Secret World
		Yet, it is hardly a secret that the chasm in transatlantic relations has never been wider and that most European leaders – and their publics – fervently pray that Bush will be defeated at next November’s American presidential elections.
		, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) used to be a mysterious figure whose name and appearance were unknown to the public.
		’s intelligence budget, divided between fifteen intelligence agencies, is estimated at $40 billion a year.
	www.mafhoum.com /press7/197P53.htm (1079 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Profile: Sir Richard Dearlove
		Sir Richard Dearlove became the second MI6 chief to be named publicly, when he was appointed head of the secret intelligence service in 1999.
		Described as an intelligence "all rounder", his appointment was seen as a reflection of the agency's new post-Cold War priorities - fighting organised crime rather than spying on the Soviets.
		MI6 was accused by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee of failing to respond with sufficient urgency to warnings that al-Qaeda was planning a major terrorist attack.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3121085.stm (387 words)

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