What is the mission of MI6?

Our mission is to provide Her Majesty’s Government with a global covert capability. We collect secret intelligence and mount operations overseas to prevent and detect serious crime, and promote and defend the national security and economic wellbeing of the United Kingdom.

What is the difference between MI6 and MI7?

MI6: Liaison with Secret Intelligence Service and Foreign Office. MI7: Press and propaganda (transferred to Ministry of Information in May 1940). MI8: Signals interception and communications security.

Is MI8 real?

MI8, or Military Intelligence, Section 8 was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. In WW2, MI8 was responsible for the extensive War Office Y Group and briefly, for the Radio Security Service.

What is the English version of the FBI?

The Security Service, also known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).

What is MI6 (SIS)?

The MI6, otherwise known as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), is Britain’s foreign intelligence agency. It stands for Military Intelligence, Section 6. Its head, the SIS chief, answers to the Foreign Secretary.

What is the difference between MI5 and MI6?

The two divisions became MI5 and MI6 respectively. While the head of MI6 (SIS) is still referred to as “C” today, the Director General of MI5 has not been known as “K” since the 1940s. See The establishment of the Secret Service Bureau for the full story of how MI5 was founded.

Was James Bond a member of MI5 or MI6?

Interestingly, that makes James Bond a member of MI6. MI5 is formally known as the Secret Service, and deals with matters internal, and MI6 should be known as the Secret Intelligence Sevice and deals with extrenal affairs. MI5 is the British security service while MI6 is the British foreign intelligence service.

Is MI5 a domestic or international service?

Although MI5 is often described as the UK’s “domestic” intelligence service, our operations aren’t purely domestic. Threats to the UK’s national security often come from overseas. For instance, foreign intelligence services and international terrorist groups seek to target UK interests at home and abroad.