#Military Intelligence

 The #Directorate of Military Intelligence is about knowledge of potential enemies, their capabilities and intentions. In war time it is about knowing where they are, what they have, what they can do. Ill disposed fools will say that military intelligence is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. They have never had to peer though the fog of war. These outfits had their successes and their failures. It seems that MI6 objected to the Special Operations Executive; it was envy of a rather good outfit.

 

MI5       
MI5 in its origin was about security, while MI6 was involved in its opposite, espionage. Today they are political rather than military and run as bureaucracies.


MI5 Logo. Motto translates as "Defend the Realm"—a reflection of the David Maxwell-Fyfe's directive for the Service to Defend the Realm
MI5 Logo. Motto translates as "Defend the Realm"—a reflection of the David Maxwell-Fyfe's directive for the Service to Defend the Realm. You do not have to be exceptionally paranoid to believe that MI5 is in major breach of its motto. It defends Her Majesty's Government, a band of traitors intent on destroying England.

QUOTE ex MI5
The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of the intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS). All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). The service has a statutory basis in the Security Service Act 1989 and the UK Intelligence Services Act of 1994. Its remit includes the protection of British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, fighting serious crime, militant separatism, terrorism and espionage within the UK. While mainly concerned with internal security, it does have an overseas role in support of the mission.

The service has had a national headquarters at Thames House on Millbank in London since 1995, drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility. Thames House is shared with the Northern Ireland Office and is also home to the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a subordinate organisation to the Security Service. It has been alleged that the Service has regional facilities with one claimed to be in Glasgow. Within the civil service community the service is colloquially known as Box 500 (after its official wartime address of PO Box 500; its current address is PO Box 3255, London SW1P 1AE)[3]
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MI6     
MI6 is the official espionage arm of Her Majesty's Government. Richard Tomlinson joined it back in 1991 then left, persona non grata. They put him in prison for his pains. He says they are a dodgy lot. See MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence - Uncensored. The uncensored version [ Brown and Mandelson ] is the interesting one. The red bits were censored. They finger Robin Cook - fornication, Brown - queer, Mandelson - ditto, Hague - ditto, Coe - ditto.

MI6 Operations - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/14/mi6-licence-to-kill-and-torture - acts of state
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In fiction, James Bond drew quite judiciously upon his licence to kill, bumping off just 38 adversaries in a dozen Ian Fleming novels. In each case, the individual received his or her just deserts. In real life, MI6 insists its officers do not kill anyone. "Assassination," its former head Sir Richard Dearlove has said, "is no part of the policy of Her Majesty's government" and would be entirely contrary to the agency's ethos.

But there can be circumstances in which MI6 officers do have a licence to kill or commit any other crime, enshrined in a curious and little-known law that was intended to protect British spies from being prosecuted or sued in the UK after committing crimes abroad. Section 7 of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act offers protection not only to spies involved in bugging or bribery, but also to any who become embroiled in far more serious matters, such as murder, kidnap or torture – as long as their actions have been authorised in writing by a secretary of state.

And as such, the section is certain to come under intense scrutiny in the months ahead, as detectives and human rights lawyers pore over the details of the secret rendition operations that MI6 ran in co-operation with Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2004. Last month Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service announced that the operations, in which two leading Libyan dissidents were abducted and taken to Tripoli with their families, were to be the subject of a criminal investigation. A few days later lawyers for both families began civil proceedings against Sir Mark Allen, the former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, accusing him of complicity in their "extraordinary rendition", torture and inhuman and degrading treatment. Proceedings against the government, MI6 and MI5 are to follow.
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The Grauniad is annoyed about MI6 having a let out clause which allows its men to to carry out Acts of State. They do not mention that Mossad and other vicious thugs in Israel do this kind of thing all the time.

 

What Is An Act Of State? Definition And Meaning
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Executive act exercising the sovereign power of a country (such as use of force against another country or a foreign individual) which cannot be challenged (or interfered with) by the courts. It includes any act of a government within its geographical boundaries which cannot be subject to the jurisdiction of the foreign courts.
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This definition come from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/act-of-state.html#ixzz1moJLjqAw . The Wiki gives a much more limited version.

 

MI8 ex Wiki 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI8
MI8, or Military Intelligence, Section 8 was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. It originally consisted of four sections: MI8(a), which dealt with wireless policy; MI8(b), based at the General Post Office, dealt with commercial and trade cables; MI8(c) dealt with the distribution of intelligence derived from censorship; and MI8(d), which liaised with the cable companies. During World War I MI8 officers were posted to the cable terminals at Poldhu Point and Mullion in Cornwall and Clifden in County Galway, continued until 1917 when the work was taken over by the Admiralty. In WW2, MI8 was responsible for the extensive War Office Y Group and briefly, for the Radio Security Service.

MI8 was the signals intelligence department of the War Office that ran a worldwide Y-stations network. Additionally, for an 18-month period, from late 1939 to mid 1941, it also ran the Radio Security Service, under the designation of MI8c, but this was quickly handed over to MI6. The remainder of this page relates only to this small organisation, with, regrettably, no information concerning the major role of MI8.

MI8c

The Radio Security Service evolved from the Illicit Wireless Intercept Organisation (IWIO), which was given the designation MI1g and run by Lt Col. J S Yule. From an office in Broadway, IWIO collaborated with Military Intelligence, Section 5 (MI5) and with the General Post Office (GPO) to set up and control a small network of Direction Finding (DF) and intercept stations, to locate illicit transmissions inside Britain.[1] Col Yule also made detailed plans for similar networks in British overseas territories, before IWIO evolved into RSS in September 1939.

But Lt Col Adrian Simpson developed a proposal which stated that a small number of stations, located around Britain, would not work.

At the start of World War II, Vernon Kell, the head of MI5, introduced a contingency plan to deal with the problem of illicit radio transmissions. A new body was created, the Radio Security Service (RSS), headed by Major J.P.G. Worlledge. Until 1927, Worlledge had commanded a Wireless Company in Palestine. His brief was to "intercept, locate and close down illicit wireless stations operated either by enemy agents in Great Britain or by other persons not being licensed to do so under Defence Regulations, 1939". As a security precaution, RSS was given the cover designation of MI8(c).

Working from cells at Wormwood Scrubs, Worlledge selected Majors Sclater and Cole-Adams as his assistants, and E.W.B. Gill as his chief traffic analyst. Gill had been engaged in wireless interception in World War I and decided that the best course of action would be to find the transmissions of the agent control stations in Germany. He recruited a research fellow from Oxford, Hugh Trevor-Roper, who was fluent in German. Working alongside them, at Wormwood Scrubs, was John Masterman, who ran MI5's double agent XX program. Masterman already had Agent SNOW, and Gill used his codes as the basis for decrypting incoming agent traffic.

RSS assigned the task of developing a comprehensive listening organization to Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst. Sandhurst was an enthusiastic amateur radio operator. He had served with the Royal Engineers Signal Service during World War I and had been commissioned as a major in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939.

Sandhurst was given an office in the Security Service's temporary accommodation in Wormwood Scrubs's prison. He began by approaching the President of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), Arthur Watts. Watts had served as an analyst in Room 40 during World War I, following the loss of a leg at Gallipoli. Watts recommended that Sandhurst recruit the entire RSGB Council. He did. The RSGB Council then began to recruit the society's members as Voluntary Interceptors (VIs). Radio amateurs were considered ideal for such work because they were widely distributed across the United Kingdom.

The VIs were mostly working men of non-military age, working in their own time and using their own equipment (their transmitters had been impounded on the outbreak of war, but their receivers had not). They were ordered to ignore commercial and military traffic, to concentrate on more elusive transmissions. Each VI was given a minimum number of intercepts to make each month. Reaching that number gave them exemption from other duties, such as fire watching. Also, many VIs were issued a special DR12 identity card. This allowed them to enter premises which they suspected to be the transmission source of unauthorized signals.

RSS also established a series of Radio Direction Finding stations, in the far corners of the British Isles, to identify the locations of the intercepted transmissions.

The recruitment of Voluntary Interceptors (VIs) was slow, since they had to be skilled, discreet, and dedicated. But, within three months, 50 VIs were at work and had identified over 600 transmitters - all firmly on the other side of the English Channel. It became apparent that there were no enemy agents transmitting from the UK. All German agents entering the UK were promptly captured and either interned or "turned" to operate as double agents under the supervision of the "XX Committee". In some cases, a British operator took over their transmissions, impersonating them. The German military did not realize this.

By May 1940, it was clear that RSS's initial mission - to locate enemy agents in the UK - was complete.

 

MI9         
MI9 was set up in December 1939 by  Norman Crockatt, a colonel, then succeeded by Jimmy Langley. It started in The Metropole Hotel in Northumberland Avenue. See p 81, The Great Escape. Men in Stalag Luft III were feeding intelligence back to MI9 83 ibid. The system was simple. Every word after a punctuation mark was the real message.

MI9 ex Wiki
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MI9, the British Military Intelligence Section 9, was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. During World War II it was charged with aiding resistance fighters in enemy occupied territory and recovering Allied troops who found themselves behind enemy lines (for example, aircrew who had been shot down and soldiers stranded after the Battle of Dunkirk). It also communicated with British prisoners of war and sent them advice and equipment.

MI9 officially came into being on 23 December 1939, led by an ex-infantry major, Norman Crockatt. In December 1941 MI9a became a separate department, MI19. At first MI9 was located in Room 424 of the Metropole Hotel, Northumberland Avenue, London.[1] It received little financial support and was under staffed due to the power struggles and personality clashes with MI6 (whose assistant-head was Colonel Sir Claude Dansey, known as ACSS) and other outfits such as SOE and PWE. With limited space at the Metropole, a floor was also taken at the requisitioned Great Central Hotel, opposite Marylebone station where WWII evaders were questioned about their journey home. Later MI9 moved to Wilton Park, Beaconsfield
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Airey Neave was one of theirs after he got out of Colditz Castle.

 

The Great Escape: Amazon.co.uk: Anton Gill: Books
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Anton Gill has produced a vivid account based on the POW, prisoner-of-war camps and episodes and references that have been contributed by survivors and their families.
There were loads of prisoner-of-war camps in Europe between 1940 and 1945. The most famous one is arguably Stalag Luft III, Sagan, where the world longest tunnel was build. Hitler did not only plan killing Jews but also thousands of intellectuals and civilians who were against the Nazis. Despite the inhospitable and adversity conditions given by Gestapo, prisoners showed utmost determination and energy to fight for their freedom. The account includes the astonishing fact that escapers' network extended to Sweden. The book contains photographs and diagrams illustrating the process of construction of the longest tunnel, how the trolley was operated, portraits of officers, examples of paperwork that escapers carried, and how the prisoners were shot, etc.
The sophisticated tunnel allowed a number of prisoners to get out of the German Air Force Transit Camp. However, they experienced extremely arduous journey around the snow capped mountains, and war zone territories where border patrols were stationed. The warfare resulted in a huge decrease in train service and damage in infrastructure. They often missed the connection trains. As the war progressed, the surveillance got reinforced, in particular, around he sea between Germany and Sweden. Toward the end of the war, a number of escapers were arrested, and sent to the prisons which were even more inhospitable. To make matters worse, the Gestapo started shooting the prisoners on the way to their destinations, and this action induced huge loss of relevant record of the gross murders undertaken by the Gestapo. The book also includes letters which the prisoners sent to their wives and families promising to come home soon.
All in all, from Stalag Luft III, 650 people involved in digging the tunnel, 126 people attempted to escape, 73 were recaptures, 50 men were executed, and only three men made their home. The story contained prisoners' heroic challenge of constructing the long tunnel manually, attempting to make themselves home, and having tragic and harrowing ending.
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Not a fun place to be.

 

MI19      

MI19 was about prisoner handling.  started life as MI9A, a branch of MI9. It was not always approved of. Torture allegations can have that effect. 

Allied war crimes during World War II
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The "London Cage", a MI19 prisoner of war facility in the UK during and immediately after the war, was subject to allegations of torture.[31]
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True or false? Take your pick.

 

MI19 ex Wiki
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MI19 was a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. In World War II it was responsible for obtaining information from enemy prisoners of war.

It was originally created in December 1940 as MI9a, a sub-section of MI9. A year later, in December 1941, it became an independent organisation, though still closely associated with its parent.[1] MI19 had Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres (CSDIC) at Beaconsfield, Wilton Park and Latimer as well as a number overseas.[2]

MI19 operated an interrogation centre in Kensington Palace Gardens, London, commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland OBE, known as the "London Cage". It was a subject of persistent reports of torture by the prisoners confined there, which included war crimes suspects from the SS and Gestapo held in the facility after World War II.[3]

The BBC reported that MI 19 staff were sent to the Channel Islands in 1945 to look for evidence of collaboration during the German occupation. The intent may have been to silence speculation. The Channel Islands were demilitarized by Britain when France fell, and were occupied by substantial German forces. The islands had no strategic value, unlike Malta, and any tactical value would have been outweighed by the effort to maintain forces there. The Channel Islands did contribute to the war effort, by tying up large numbers of German troops who were not available for more aggressive military tasks. There was also a very substantial investment in fortifications, all of which were in the end pointless. MI19 in the Channel Islands'
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MI9 was perhaps more useful.

 

MI19 in the Channel Islands ex BBC
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A book about the Occupation of Jersey by Nazi Germany claims the secret service tried to find evidence of collaboration after the war.

The author of 'Outpost of Occupation', Barry Turner, said it looks like they wanted to damage Jersey's reputation. Mr Turner has revealed previously secret documents showing that Churchill was keen to preserve the myth that British people would never surrender. Outpost of Occupation looks at the MI-19 investigation of Jersey.

It shows how MI-19 agents came to the Channel Islands after the Liberation in search of evidence of mass collaboration. Mr Turner claims Churchill was trying to prove to the world that Britain would not have surrendered to the Germans if it had been invaded in the same way as the Channel Islands.

Churchill sent MI-19 agents to Jersey, to try to find evidence of collaboration, to show that the island had surrendered because of failures in every level of society.
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They did not resist? What did they have to resist with? A few shotguns and that was about it.

 

Special Operations Executive ex Wiki aka SOE    
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation. It was officially formed on 22 July 1940 under Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton, from the amalgamation of three existing secret organisations. Its purpose was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.

Few people were aware of SOE's existence. Those who were part of it or liaised with it were sometimes referred to as the "Baker Street Irregulars", after the location of its London headquarters. It was also known as "Churchill's Secret Army" or the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare". Its various branches, and sometimes the organisation as a whole, were concealed for security purposes behind names such as the "Joint Technical Board" or the "Inter-Service Research Bureau", or fictitious branches of the Air Ministry, Admiralty or War Office.

SOE operated in all territories occupied or attacked by the Axis forces, except where demarcation lines were agreed with Britain's principal Allies (the United States and the Soviet Union). It also made use of neutral territory on occasion, or made plans and preparations in case neutral countries were attacked by the Axis. The organisation directly employed or controlled more than 13,000 people, about 3,200 of whom were women.[1]

After the war, the organisation was officially dissolved on 15 January 1946. A memorial to SOE's agents was unveiled in October 2009 on the Albert Embankment by Lambeth Palace in London.[2]


 

British State Thugs Interrogate Lawyer For Victim Of Crime State  [ 23 February 2014 ]
MI5 interrogated Edward Snowden's lawyer as she came to England. This is harassment but then we now KNOW that GCHQ is a criminal organisation. Craig Murray, lately Her Majesty's ambassador to a ghastly little Hellhole also disapproves of the High Court judges who have tolerated Torture & other abuses of government power.

 

MI5 Files Opened To Public  [ 28 February 2014 ]
The National Archives releases latest batch of MI5 files
28 February 2014
The National Archives has released more than a hundred Security Service files today, including never-seen-before material on the actor Michael Redgrave and the playwright JB Priestley.

This is the 30th Security Service records release and brings the total number of Security Service files in the KV series at The National Archives to 5,138.

Among the papers in this latest release are Personal Files (KV 2) on the actor Michael Redgrave. Redgrave's file also provides interesting new details about Guy Burgess, a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring who defected to the Soviet Union and met Redgrave in Moscow while the actor was playing the part of Hamlet on stage.

Other notable files in this release include:

  • five files on post-war Jewish terrorism activities in the UK, including assassination targets (KV 3/437 through to KV 3/441)
  • the remarkable wartime story of the British fascist sympathisers and 'Fifth Columnists' exposed by an MI5 agent posing as a representative of the Gestapo (KV 2/3800)
  • files relating to Russian espionage in the USA and penetration of the Manhattan Project

A selection of files from this release has been digitised and will be available to download from our website free for one month.

Professor Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, has recorded a podcast about the new files.

 

MI6 Alleges It Is Hampered By Being Legal  [ 31 March 2015 ]
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Britain is locked in a post-Snowden ‘arms race’ with terrorists who are using technology to spy on the security services and put ‘our people and agents at risk’, the head of MI6 warned last night.

In his first public speech, Alex Younger made a series of pointed references to how UK intelligence agencies operate within some of the strictest laws in the world while our enemies were ‘unconstrained’.

His comments will be seen as a rejection of the barrage of criticism aimed at MI6, MI5 and GCHQ by US ‘whistleblower’ Edward Snowden and his supporters in the UK. Snowden’s cheerleaders claim he exposed mass unauthorised surveillance by the security services.
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Mr. Younger looks like a decent man. He knows that England's real problem is the Traitors of Her Majesty's Government importing millions of Third World aliens, especially Islamics.

 

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