Sentences with phrase «british secret intelligence service»

The Court allowed the appellants Abdul Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar to sue the British Secret Intelligence Service and the Minister responsible for it at the material time, for a declaration of illegality and for damages.

He is working in a dead - end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center - stage in a dangerous game of espionage.

After spending much of 1916 in the Pacific researching a novel on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence, in 1917 he was asked by the British Secret Intelligence Service to undertake a mission to Russia.

It's the Cold War and the Soviet's have a high ranking mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service serving them up the most sensitive of information.

What pretty much no one knows — until now — is that the famous author of the Chronicles of Narnia was a secret government agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service — the for - real MI6.

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The information behind such portrayals doesn't come from the files of secret British and US intelligence services that we're never allowed to see, but from the horrifying testimony of survivors, or those still trapped in areas of ISIS control.

The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers (William Collins # 30) explores the evolving relationship between successive British Prime Ministers and agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council.

This year, two British intelligence institutions celebrate their centenaries: the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Seintelligence institutions celebrate their centenaries: the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence SeIntelligence Service (MI6).

Lord Goldsmith is understood to have been warned that the flow of vital intelligence from the Saudi Government to the British secret services could be impaired following a break between the two governments over the contracts, thereby endangering national security, particularly during the war on terrorism.

I wrote a feature review of Sony's DVD release of Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana, starring Alec Guinness as a meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana who concocts fictional intelligence reports for the British Secret Service, for Turner Classic Movies.

He is approached by British intelligence service MI5 and tasked with a secret mission to obtain information about a British government minister (Roache) and his wife (Hawes), whom he has recently befriended.

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The Cambridge Five consisted of Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, all Cambridge graduates, who made their careers in various British government agencies including the Secret Intelligence Service.

About SIS According to SIS's informative website, a formal and permanent British intelligence service was first established in 1909; but the history of British intelligence organizations engaged in foreign intelligence goes back at least to the 15th century (Thomas Cromwell ran secret agents in Europe on behalf of Henry VIII and Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's «spymaster», maintained a network of 50 secret agents abroad and a substantial network in Britain.