The Secret History of MI6 - Keith Jeffery [483]
Torch, Operation (Allied landings in North Africa)
train-watching
United states enters war
Venlo incident
Z Organisation
SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SIS)
Appointment of Chiefs:
Cumming (1909)
Hugh Sinclair (1923)
Menzies (1939)
John Sinclair (1952)
Archives:
access
contents
maintenance
Buildings:
Ashley Mansions, Vauxhall Bridge Road
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire
Broadway Buildings
14 Brompton Square
Bush House, Aldwych
Central House, Kingsway
Century House, Lambeth
Glenalmond, St Albans
Hans Place, Knightsbridge
1 Melbury Road, Holland Park
Park Mansions, Vauxhall Bridge Road
Ryder Street, St James’s
64 Victoria Street
Whaddon Hall, Buckinghamshire
2 Whitehall Court
Cover:
Bland Report recommendations for postwar cover
business cover
cover addresses
cover names for agents
cover names for SIS
cover for Section VIII
cover for SIS postwar German units
cover for Z Organisation
Cumming’s initial recommendations
Somerville’s recommendations in 1919 review
‘Unofficial Assistants’
see also Military Control Organisation; Passport Control Organisation
Financing:
annual budgets
establishment of Finance and Administration Directorate
growth of expenditure during First World War
growth of expenditure during Second World War
income from Military/Passport Control Organisations
interwar economising and financial stringency
Post Office Vote
post-Second World War funding
pre-First World War Secret Service Bureau budget
Secret Service Vote
Internal reorganisations:
1914
1917
post-First World War
1923-24
1939-40
1942
1943-44
1945-46
Nomenclature:
founded as ‘Foreign’ branch of Secret Service Bureau
MI1(c) cover name adopted
MI6 cover name adopted
use of ‘Secret Intelligence Service’ and SIS abbreviation
Recruitment and staffing:
Bland Report proposals
establishment of Recruiting Office
First World War recruitment
informality of recruitment processes
introduction of annual performance reports for officers
introduction of grading structure and pay scales
numbers of staff
pension provision
post-First World War recruitment
recruitment of foreign nationals
recruitment of scientists and technicians
recruitment of women
Second World War recruitment
staff welfare
taxation of salaries
training of agents
training of SIS officers
use ofService Selection Board
vetting procedures
Relations with armed forces’ chiefs:
pattern established with founding of Secret Service Bureau
under Cumming
under Sinclair
under Menzies
Sections and branches:
Circulating and Requirements Sections, functions and organisation of
see also Requirements Directorate; Sections I-X
Finance and Administration Directorate
Production Sections, functions and organisation of see also A Section; G Groups; O Section; P Sections; Production Controllerates; Production Research Section
Q Branch
Registry
Scientific Section
Special Liaison Controllerate
Training and Development Directorate
Training Section
Security:
establishment of post of Inspector of Security
maintenance of SIS’s low profile within government
salaries paid tax-free to maintain anonymity
secrecy of headquarters’ addresses
secrecy of recruitment processes
‘Unofficial Assistant’ doctrine
vetting of recruits
Special operations:
conflict with secret intelligence work
postwar operations
Section IX (‘D’ Section) wartime operations training in special operations
see also SOE
Tradecraft:
aerial reconnaissance
codes
concealing devices
Cumming’s development of tradecraft
disguises
microfilm
‘Notes on Instruction and Recruiting of Agents’
paper communications
research and development of equipment
secret writing and inks
telephone tapping
training in tradecraft
wireless communications
Secret Service Bureau:
appointment of Cumming and Kell as chiefs
financing
founding
prewar growth and development
separation of Security Service and SIS functions
wartime reorganisation
see also Secret Intelligence Service; Security Service
Secret Service Committees:
1919
1921
1922
1925