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 Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:55 am Post subject: Spiked News - October 2009 is centenary of MI5 & MI6 |
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A friend of mine explained that Charles and his ravishing beau Camilla will be guests of honour at a big MI6 centenary event - not a sausage in the news about their central involvement.
Maybe they (both SiS and the illegally married royal couple) are not proud of their record?
This is a bizarre schizophrenic branch of the ruling class to be sure.
Where everything is spin.
Meanwhile two sets of Highgrove florists are dead (prince Charles' residence).
| Times occultism correspondant wrote: | ........For most of their history, Britain's secret services have declined to divulge facts about the past, for fear of jeopardising future operations. This, too, has changed. In October MI5 will mark its centenary with an official history of the service written by Professor Christopher Andrew, who has had full access to the archives. A similar volume on the history of MI6 is being written by Professor Keith Jeffery.
The shift towards greater candour has provoked squeals in some quarters. When Stella Rimington, the former MI5 chief, published her memoirs, the spy-writer Chapman Pincher denounced her in the Daily Mail, demanding to know “Is this the most treacherous woman in Britain?” He added: “I sense the secrets Establishment will be averse to putting another woman in a top job for many years.” A year later Eliza Manningham-Buller was appointed Director-General of MI5....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/arti cle5461513.ece
January 7, 2009
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this is the only article I could find about the elite occult party of the century
| Quote: | Britain's Spies Plan to Party Like 007 When MI-6 Turns 1-0-0
Guest List and Menu for Its Black-Tie Fete Are Hush-Hush, but Spooks Must Go Dutch
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346895354660517.html
By STEPHEN FIDLER
LONDON -- In the Hollywood version of the British foreign intelligence agency known as MI6, elegant black-tie affairs are all part of a night's work for super spy James Bond. When his real-life counterparts don their tuxedos later this year for an elegant celebration of the MI6's 100th anniversary, they are being told to pay their own way.
The true life version of MI6 has always been less opulent than its fictional counterpart. But in the midst of a deep recession, when British bankers and members of Parliament are being publicly pilloried for extravagance, the spy agency's chiefs have decided that British taxpayers shouldn't be asked to pick up the tab.
The espionage ball, nonetheless, will almost by definition be one of the most remarkable and exclusive of 2009. Along with a host of spies past and present, a carefully screened guest list includes, according to people familiar with the arrangements, the great and powerful of the U.K., from members of the royal family to leading politicians.
Yet while MI6 is tripping the light fantastic, its sister organization -- MI5, responsible for domestic intelligence -- is celebrating its own centenary more soberly.
MI5's main event will be the launch of its first official history by Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew. The book -- "Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5" -- will be published Oct. 5 by Penguin, a subsidiary of Pearson PLC. Penguin says no big launch parties are planned, just a series of lectures by Prof. Andrew.
Next to this, it sounds like MI6 -- formally known as the Secret Intelligence Service, or SIS -- will be having more fun. Some people in Britain's tightknit intelligence community grumble that, even though the agency has done its best to keep the event under wraps, it is not appropriate for MI6 to be holding balls.
"It's a secret service, for God's sake," said one individual familiar with the plans.
Others say that while the black-tie occasion is unprecedented, it is exactly in line with what the agency has done as well in real life as it has in the James Bond version: rubbing shoulders with the powerful.
"It's a very SIS thing to do," says Philip Davies, an intelligence specialist at London's Brunel University. "It has a reputation for cultivating its links to 'the great and the good.'"
People close to the service say the decision to hold the ball was made at the top, by Sir John Scarlett, the director general of MI6, who, like his predecessors, is referred to by the initial "C" -- after the service's first chief, Mansfield Cumming.
Government officials are mum about details. All staff will pay for their tickets, the most senior paying the most. But they won't say more, refusing to acknowledge the existence of a guest list or disclose the party's date or location, citing security concerns.
The rest of the event is shrouded in, well, secrecy. According to people familiar with the matter, the party has been planned for a secure location well fortified against gatecrashers. One person says musical entertainment from more than one band, dinner and dancing are planned. "C" himself signed off on the menu, this person says.
John Scarlett - For Sir John, 60 years old, who retires soon afterwards, the event should also cap an illustrious career.
In the 1980s, he was the MI6 case officer for Oleg Gordievsky, then the senior KGB officer in the Soviet Embassy in London and later perhaps the most celebrated Soviet defector of the Cold War, helping to turn over information of huge value to London and Washington.
As chairman of the interdepartmental Joint Intelligence Committee, Sir John signed off on a faulty 2002 intelligence dossier released to the public about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. It did his career no harm, however. In 2004, he returned to MI6 as its chief, appointed by then Prime Minister Tony Blair.
To his detractors, the Iraq dossier and the celebration show Sir John's failure to keep MI6's political masters at arm's length. His supporters say he is a man with a keen sense of duty, and his wish is to honor a service that has made an important but largely unsung contribution to the security of the U.K.
The secret agencies have struggled with heightened public scrutiny, the likes of which the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a mere sexagenarian in the intelligence business, has faced for decades now.
That's partly explained by history. MI5 and MI6 were created together as the Secret Service Bureau in October 1909, prompted by British fears about a growing threat of invasion from Germany. Days later, says Nick Hiley of the University of Kent, they split after the heads of its foreign and domestic units fell out. The home section evolved into MI5, responsible for counterintelligence and security within the U.K., while the foreign section became MI6. Both were departments of military intelligence, hence the initials.
For eight decades, the government officially denied their existence. MI5 was formalized by law in 1989, while MI6 had to wait until 1994 before that step was taken.
Today, both increasingly face public examination and controversy. In recent weeks, MI5 admitted it had had the ringleader of the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings on London's transport system in its sights on several occasions before the attacks. MI6 has faced questions about how much it knew of the harsh treatment meted out to U.S. terror detainees.
Both have benefited from big increases in funding since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The total intelligence budget for the two services and GCHQ, Britain's signals intelligence agency, is set to exceed £2 billion ($3.2 billion) this year, more than double what it was in 2001, according to figures from the parliamentary committee that oversees the agency. But MI5's budget has tripled to combat the threat from domestic Islamist terrorism, outstripping the increase in MI6's funding.
For much of their history, MI5 was the Cinderella organization compared with its more glamorous sister: MI6 officers were said to regard their counterparts as plodding bureaucrats. That may have changed now. But Cinderella or not, it's still MI6 that gets to go to the ball.
Write to Stephen Fidler at stephen.fidler@wsj.com
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HUNDREDS TO HOLD THUNDER-BALL
BOND-STYLE: The ball is a Black Tie affair
Sunday May 10,2009 - By James Fi
HUNDREDS of British spies will step out of the shadows later this year when they hold a ball to celebrate MI6’s centenary.
The gala event will take place in October – at a secret location of course.
In theory the celebration is being kept hush-hush by the Secret Intelligence Service. But details are beginning to leak out from its fortress-like headquarters in London.
The event will be a strictly Black Tie affair and wives and girlfriends will be invited to ensure that MI6’s predominantly male staff have someone to dance with.
Whether there will be martinis, roulette tables and a car park full of Aston Martin DB5s remains to be seen.
However, with the British economy straining under the weight of the recession, the organisation is keen to make clear that its agents are paying for tickets to the event from their own pockets.
MI6 has taken various steps in recent years aimed at demystifying the profession and becoming more approachable.
In 2007, two secret agents gave the first “on the record interview” with the media, telling the BBC that they were not like James Bond and dismissing claims that their lives were like the TV drama series Spooks.
MI6’s head of recruitment said: “This is the biggest myth at the service. We do not have a licence to kill, we do not carry Berettas. That’s simply not true.”
A female operational officer also provided an insight into aspects of her work with foreign agents: “We absolutely never threaten or blackmail or coerce people to work with us. That is the most counter-productive tactic you can ever use,” she said.
Last year MI6 broke with tradition by recruiting the next generation of spies through the social networking site Facebook, having already issued a series of newspaper and radio adverts.
The three pop-up adverts appealed to university graduates, young professionals who were bored with their jobs and even those who sought a place in global history.
One read: “A career in world events? Help influence world events, protect the UK. Operational officer roles collecting and analysing global intelligence.”
MI6 was founded in October 1909 in a joint initiative by the Admiralty and the War Office to control secret intelligence operations amid deep concern about Germany’s military expansion.
Today the organisation says it fights “regional instability, terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and illegal narcotics”.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/100053/Hundreds-to-hold-Thunder-ba ll
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI_numbers
| Quote: | During the First World War, British secret services were divided into numbered sections named Military Intelligence, department number x, abbreviated to MIx such as MI1 for information management.
The Branch, Department, Section, and Sub-section numbers varied through the life of the department, however examples include:[3] Name Details
MI1 Codes and cyphers. Later merged with other code-breaking agencies and became Government Code and Cypher School (now known as Government Communications Headquarters).
MI2 Information on Middle and Far East, Scandinavia, USA, USSR, Central and South America.
MI3 Information on Eastern Europe and the Baltic Provinces (plus USSR, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia after Summer 1941).
MI4 Geographical section - maps (transferred to Military Operations in April 1940).
MI5 Liaison with Security Service, following the transfer of Security Service to the Home Office in the 1920s.
MI6 Liaison with Secret Intelligence Service.
MI7 Press and propaganda (transferred to Ministry of Information in May 1940).
MI8 Signals interception and communications security.
MI9 Escaped British PoW debriefing, escape and evasion (plus enemy PoW interrogation until December 1941).
MI10 Technical Intelligence worldwide.
MI11 Military Security.
MI12 Liaison with censorship organisations in Ministry of Information, military censorship.
MI13 Not used (except in fiction).
MI14 Germany and German-occupied territories (aerial photography until Spring 1943).
MI15 Aerial photography. In the Spring of 1943, aerial photography moved to the Air Ministry and MI15 became air defence intelligence.
MI16 Scientific Intelligence (formed 1945).
MI17 Secretariat for Director of Military Intelligence from April 1943.
MI18 Not used.
MI19 Enemy PoW interrogation (formed from MI9 in December 1941). |
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