MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949

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Harding, Luke (15 November 2017). "How Trump walked into Putin's web". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017 . Retrieved 30 January 2018. After the war, resources were significantly reduced but during the 1920s, SIS established a close operational relationship with the diplomatic service. In August 1919, Cumming created the new passport control department, providing diplomatic cover for agents abroad. The post of Passport Control Officer provided operatives with diplomatic immunity. [17] Davies, Philip H. J. (2004). MI6 and the Machinery of Spying London: Frank Cass, ISBN 0-7146-8363-9 (h/b).

Dorril, Stephen (2001). MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, London: Fourth Estate, ISBN 1-85702-701-9. a b Kochanski, Halik (2014). The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Harvard University Press. pp.234–235. ISBN 978-0674068148.In 1940, the British intelligence services entered into a special agreement with their Polish counterparts. This collaboration between the two nations played a significant role in shaping the course of World War II. In July 2005, the governments of the United Kingdom and Poland jointly produced a comprehensive two-volume study that shed light on their bilateral intelligence cooperation during the war. This study, which unveiled information that had been classified as secret until that point, was known as the Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee. [31] Norton-Taylor, Richard (31 March 2015). "Sir Mansfield Cumming, first MI6 chief, commemorated with blue plaque". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 March 2015. Corera, Gordon, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, W&N , 2012, ISBN 0753828332, 978-0753828335, p.399-400

A Year with MI6 was a public art exhibition, showing a collection of paintings and drawings by artist James Hart Dyke to mark the centenary of the Secret Intelligence Service. [91] The project saw Dyke working closely with the SIS for a year, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. [92] The Service allowed Hart Dyke access to enable him to undertake the project, sending him on hostile environment courses to allow him to work in dangerous parts of the world, and admitting him into their Vauxhall Cross headquarters. The sensitivity of SIS work required Dyke to maintain secrecy, and his access was carefully controlled. [91]Macintyre’s prose is elegant and enlivened with occasional asides that are eminently quotable, as well as inevitable nods to the classics of the spy genre, above all John le Carré (one spy is “Our Man in Copenhagen”), but there is a key difference between the old master and Macintyre.

Section D to conduct political covert actions and paramilitary operations in time of war. Section D would organise the Home Defence Scheme resistance organisation in the UK and come to be the foundation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. [17] [23]This fast-paced memoir is by the man who founded the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center in the 1980s. Ahead of his time, he relates the early days of a battle against what became the CIA’s main enemy in the 21 st Century: the non-state terrorist group. Embroiled in the Iran-Contra scandal, Clarridge was and is an unapologetic man of action. But in describing, for instance, how arch-enemy Abu Nidal was defeated, he gives a glimpse into the fusion of covert action, subtle analysis, and classical espionage that counter-terrorist work has become. Davies, Philip H. J. (2005). 'The Machinery of Spying Breaks Down' in Studies in Intelligence, Summer 2005 Declassified Edition. Brit ex-spy to cut Mandela out of MI6 book". IOL News. 1 February 2001. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 17 February 2013. Radnofsky, Louise (20 February 2008). "MI6 did not assassinate Diana, ex-chief tells inquest". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 April 2020. Brian Lett (30 September 2016). "28 – Did the SOE refuse to die?". SOE's Mastermind: The Authorised Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins KCMG, DSO, MC. Pen and Sword Military. pp.256–57. ISBN 978-1-47386383-5. OCLC 953834421 . Retrieved 18 September 2019.

a b c d e f Mueller, Andrew (3 September 2006). "The Spy Who Was Left out in the Cold". Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 15 February 2013. SIS activities included a range of covert political actions, including the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadeq in Iran in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état (in collaboration with the US Central Intelligence Agency). [47] Tomlinson was imprisoned under the Official Secrets Act 1989 in 1997 after he gave a synopsis of a proposed book detailing his career with MI6 to an Australian publisher. He served six months of a twelve-month sentence before being given parole, whereupon he left the country. The book, named The Big Breach, was published in Moscow in 2001 (and later in Edinburgh), and was subsequently serialised by The Sunday Times. The book detailed various aspects of MI6 operations, alleging that it employed a mole in the German Bundesbank and that it had a " licence to kill", the latter later confirmed by the head of MI6 at a public hearing. [5] Cafe, Rebecca (4 August 2011). "What do artists-in-residence do?". BBC News . Retrieved 9 July 2020. a b c d Du Chateau, Carroll (31 May 2000). "Outcast: the spy who wants to spill the beans". The New Zealand Herald.In 2001, it became clear that working with Ahmad Shah Massoud and his forces was the best option for going after Bin Laden; the priority for MI6 was developing intelligence coverage. The first real sources were being established, although no one penetrated the upper tier of the Al Qaeda leadership itself. As the year progressed, plans were drawn up and slowly worked their way up to the White House on 4 September 2001-which involved increasing dramatically support for Massoud. MI6 were involved in these plans. [58] War on Terror [ edit ] Gordievsky in London in 1991. He remains here, ‘somewhere in the suburbs’. Photograph: News (UK) Ltd / Rex Features He now lives permanently in France and has retrained as a professional pilot. [58] Personal life [ edit ] Spectre". Movie locations. Archived from the original on 28 November 2016 . Retrieved 3 January 2015. Barnett, Antony (13 June 1999). "British agents helped Iran to make killer gas". The Observer. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 23 March 2013.