X-Nico

17 unusual facts about Secret Intelligence Service


9007 James Bond

The numbering of this asteroid, 9007, is significant in that 007 refers to Bond's code number in the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Australian Secret Intelligence Service

Its current Director-General is Nick Warner.

At the time, ASIS was substantially modeled on the United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6.

Blood Red, Snow White

To ease his return, he reconsiders the offer from the SIS, and becomes agent S76.

Bunduki

Bunduki's parents served with Dawn's parents in 'Group Thirteen', a Special Missions Organization of the Secret Intelligence Service during World War II.

CIA activities in India

When India's intelligence community was built around RAW in 1968, RAW's first director, R.N. Kao, held meetings with his CIA counterparts in the U.S., as well as the United Kingdom's SIS and the Soviet Union KGB.

Death by Degrees

Nina Williams, world-renowned assassin, has been hired by the CIA and MI6 to join a team which is attempting to infiltrate "Kometa," a notorious criminal organization.

Einar Johansen

In September 1940 the Secret Intelligence Service established two stations for radio communication; the so-called Skylark A was led by Sverre Midtskau in Oslo while Skylark B was led by Erik Welle-Strand in Trondheim.

Fazlollah Zahedi

The newly formed CIA, along with the British intelligence agency MI6, took an active role in the developments, terming their involvement Operation Ajax.

Glenora, Edmonton

In 1966 it was inherited by their daughter Peggy O'Connor Farnell, a former British intelligence service employee during the Second World War, and her family who then lived in it until 1999.

Jan Dahm

He was among the first group of people to be subject to court-martial during the German occupation of Norway, and later initiated and headed the Secret Intelligence Service group Theta, which operated in Bergen from December 1941 to June 1942.

Josef Schintlmeister

STIB archives confirms that Schintlmeister was a target of British MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service.

Kurt Frederick Ludwig

The first break came when British Imperial Censorship, located in the Princess Hotel in Bermuda and run by the British Security Coordination (BSC) — actually a cover for the Secret Intelligence Service — intercepted a letter written to "Lothar Frederick" and signed by a "Joe K".

Road map for peace

According to Crooke, the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair played an important role in the developement of a 2003 MI6 plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on Hamas.

Sir William Wiseman, 8th Baronet

Rear-Admiral Sir William Wiseman, 9th Baronet (1845–1893), naval officer, whose son was Sir William Wiseman, 10th Baronet, head of Secret Intelligence Service in Washington, DC during the First World War.

Thatchergate

In January 2014 official government documents were released to the National Archives revealing the concerns of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary

It loosely follows the history of the Berlin Tunnel (Operation Gold, covername: PBJOINTLY), which was built and run jointly by the CIA and the British SIS.


Albanian Subversion

Based on wrong assessments about Albania, and thinking that the country was ready to shake off its Stalinist regime, the British SIS and the American CIA launched a joint subversive operation, using as agents Albanian expatriates.

Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull

Turnbull became involved in controversy when on 28 February 2004 he wrote a formal letter admonishing ex-minister Clare Short for making media statements alleging that British intelligence had intercepted communications from (amongst others) Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan.

Erich Vermehren

Meanwhile, Erich had made overtures to the British Secret Intelligence Service, which already had a file on him, through its counter-espionage representative Nicholas Elliot.

Habbush letter

Suskind claimed to have held tape-recorded interviews with Richer, Maguire, and Nigel Inkster of the British Secret Intelligence Service, in which they apparently testified that the White House was behind the forging of the letter.

Jeremy Wolfenden

Wolfenden was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) before becoming the Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent in Moscow where he indulged in his twin passions for sex and alcohol and was eventually compromised by the KGB.

Operation Pike

Using specially modified and unmarked Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra aircraft painted in a special blue camouflage scheme developed by Cotton himself (who led the RAF's Photographic Development Unit or PDU), the Secret Intelligence Service launched the high-altitude reconnaissance flights from RAF Habbaniya, a Royal Air Force station in Iraq.

Parham Airfield Museum

The ‘Auxunits’ were one of Britain’s nine secret services of World War II, alongside better known clandestine organisations such as the Security Service (MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and the Special Operations Executive.

RPG-22

On the evening of 20 September 2000, the MI6 Building in London the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service, was attacked by unapprehended forces using a RPG-22 anti-tank rocket, causing superficial damage.

Spycatcher

Moreover, Spycatcher tells of the MI6 plot to assassinate President Nasser during the Suez Crisis; of joint MI5-CIA plotting against left-wing British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (secretly accused of being a KGB agent by the Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn); and of MI5's eavesdropping on high-level Commonwealth conferences.

Sverre Bergh

His role was to investigate information given to him by Paul Rosbaud and report this back to XU and the British Secret Intelligence Service, while living under the cover of being a student.

The Heart of the Matter

Greene, a British intelligence officer in Freetown, Sierra Leone, drew on his experience there.