The Secret History of MI6 - Keith Jeffery [484]
1927
1931
during Second World War
Secret Service Vote
secret writing
Section I:
during First World War: Economic
disbanded postwar
from early 1920s: Political
see also Requirements Branch, R.I
Section II (Air)
Section III (Naval)
Section IV (Military) IVB (Far East)
Section V:
1917-1924: Political
1925-1945: Counter-Intelligence
see also Requirements Branch, R.5
Section VI:
during First World War: Organisation
from 1926-7: Economic
Section VII (Preparation for German invasion of Britain)
Section VIII (Communications)
Section IX (‘D’ Section):
1938-40: Special Operations
from May 1943: Communism
see also Requirements Branch, R.5
Section X (Telephone Tapping)
Section D (Special Operations) see Section IX
Security Executive
Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE)
Security Intelligence Middle East (SIME)
Security Service (MI5):
access to GC&CS signals intelligence
establishment of Military Control Organisation
financing
Findlater Stewart report on peacetime operations (1945)
First World War counter-espionage operations
founding as ‘Home’ branch of Secret Service Bureau
given expanded role for domestic counter-intelligence
incorporated into War Office as MO5(g)
index of contacts
liaison with US intelligence services
MI5 code name adopted
monitoring of domestic Communists
operations in Commonwealth and Dominions
operations in Ireland
operations in Palestine
overseas stations
Petrie’s proposal to takeover SIS Section V
post-First World War proposed amalgamation with SIS
running of double-agents
Section B.26
separation of functions from SIS
SIS relations and liaison with
vetting of SIS recruits
Seeds, Sir William, ambassador to Brazil
Selborne, Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of, Minister of Economic Warfare
Sells, Commander William, British naval attaché in Athens
semen, use as secret ink
Seoul, SIS station
Serbia
Service de Centralisation des Renseignements (French counter-espionage service)
Service de Renseignements (French intelligence service)
Servizio Informazione Militare (Italian
Military Intelligence service; SIM)
Sète
Sevastopol naval base
Seymour, D. O. ‘Charles’
Shanghai
30 May Massacre (1925)
Comintern Far East Bureau
SIS station
Sheffy, Yigal
Shelepina, Yevgeniya Petrovna (later Ransome)
Shelley, John
Sherwood, Percy, head of Canadian Government Police
Shetland Islands
Ship Observers Scheme
Shone, Sir Terence, high commissioner in India
Short, Edward, Home Secretary
Shuckburgh, (Sir) Evelyn
Siam see Thailand
Siberia
Sicherheitsdienst (Nazi security service; SD)
Sicily
SIFE see Security Intelligence Far East
Sillitoe, Sir Percy (Director-General MI5)
SIM see Servizio Informazione Militare
SIME see Security Intelligence Middle East
Sinclair, Evelyn (Sir Hugh Sinclair’s sister)
Sinclair, Admiral Sir Hugh ‘Quex’(SIS Chief 1923-39):
appointed SIS Chief
assessment of his leadership
background and character
closes down Riga group agency
development of operations in:
Far East
France
Germany
Iberia
Ireland
Mediterranean
Middle East
Scandinavia
United States
DNI (1919-21)
establishment of Z Organisation
‘excommunication’ of Landau
expansion of GC&CS
expansion of SIS role and operations
fights for increased funding for SIS
illness and death
instructions on provision of quid pro quo
intelligence
instructions on verification of intelligence
interest in ‘Jonny Case’
lobbies for unified intelligence service
memorandum on link between Soviet
Union and trade unions
moves SIS and GC&CS to Broadway
Buildings
policy advice to government during Munich Crisis
political views
prosecution of Mackenzie under Official Secrets Act
purchase of Bletchley Park
Queen Anne’s Gate flat
reaction to Arcos raid
reorganisation of SIS
report on Hitler’s character and intentions
reports on SpanishWar operations
responsibility for GC&CS
role in Zinoviev Letter affair
stripped of control of domestic agents
use of Passport Control Organisation as cover and income
visits New York SIS station
his Will
Sinclair, Major-Gen. Sir John