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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners. SIS is one of the British intelligence agencies and the…

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Headquarters
SIS Building London, England United Kingdom
Agency executive
Blaise Metreweli, Chief
Annual budget
Single Intelligence Account £4.932 billion (2025–26)
Employees
3,753 (2023)
Formed
4 July 1909; 117 years ago (1909-07-04)
Jurisdiction
His Majesty's Government

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related to General bibliography · 249
MI6 → Ace, Agent George Blake, Alan, Albania, Aldrich, Allen, America, An, Anthony, At Her Majesty's Secret, Atkin, Aurum, Barnsley, Bennett, Benny, Bethell, Betrayal, Bill Bristow, Biography, Black
related to Notable people · 68
MI6 → Ace, Aggie MacKenzie, Australian, Blunt, British Security Co-ordination, Burgess, Cairncross, Cambridge Five, Carré, Charles Cumming, Christine Granville, Cold War Soviet, Cornwell, Dukes, Duško Popov, Eastern Europe, Ellis, Fulton, GCHQ, Greene
related to Inter-war period · 36
MI6 → Admiralty, After, Around, At, Bolshies, British, British Intelligence, C's, Circulating Sections, Claude Dansey, Cumming, During, Fascists, Foreign Intelligence Service, Foreign Office, In August, Intelligence Services Act, It, Leslie Nicholson, MI1
related to First World War · 27
MI6 → Belgium, Bolsheviks, British, During, Eastern Front, European, First World War, George Alexander Hill, German, Germany, Irish, MI6's, Most, November, Officially, On, Petrograd, Provisional, Reilly, Reilly's
related to Second World War · 27
MI6 → Best, British, Dirk Klop, During, Dutch, German, Henry Stevens, Hitler, Horse Guards, Lt Col, Neville Chamberlain, November, On, Phoney War, Second World War, Sicherheitsdienst, Sigismund Payne Best, Sinclair, Stevens, Stewart Menzies
related to Commemorations · 19
MI6 → An, Dyke, February, Hart Dyke, He, James Hart Dyke, London, Mayfair, More, Mount Street Galleries, Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, SIS's, The, The Service, To, United Kingdom, Vauxhall Cross, Year
related to The Circus · 18
MI6 → Bertram Mills, Between Silk, Cambridge Circus, Carré, Carré's, Cyanide, David Cornwell, Dorset Square, In, John, Leo Marks, London, SIS, SOE, Some, Special Operations Executive, The Circus, World War II
related to Awards · 10
MI6 → Awards, Clarence House, GCHQ, King Charles III, MI5, Prince, Security Service, St James's Palace, Wales, Wales's Intelligence Community Awards
see also · 9
MI6 → Americas, British, Canada, Department, MI6Camp, Security Co-ordination, William Stephenson, WWII, WWIIMI9
related to External links · 8
MI6 → Archived, August, BBC's The One, Commonwealth Office's, Foreign, Information, Official, SIS

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MI6Agency executiveBlaise Metreweli, Chief1.00infobox
MI6Annual budgetSingle Intelligence Account £4.932 billion (2025–26)1.00infobox
MI6Employees3,753 (2023)1.00infobox
MI6Formed4 July 1909; 117 years ago (1909-07-04)1.00infobox
MI6HeadquartersSIS Building London, England United Kingdom1.00infobox
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MI6JurisdictionHis Majesty's Government1.00infobox
MI6Minister responsibleEd Miliband, Foreign Secretary1.00infobox
MI6MottoSemper Occultus ("Always Secret")1.00infobox
MI6Preceding agencySecret Service Bureau1.00infobox
MI6TypeForeign intelligence service1.00infobox
MI6Websitesis.gov.uk1.00infobox

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