Sentences with phrase «of secret intelligence service»

The SOE was formed from three different but overlapping units: a propaganda unit known as Department EH run by a Canadian newspaper magnate; Section D, a division of the Secret Intelligence Service focused on sabotage and propaganda; and a department of the War Office, known as MI R.

Friends: noun, general slang for members of an intelligence service; specifically British slang for members of the Secret Intelligence Service [or MI6].

Now Keith Jeffery's MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 - 1949 has been published.

Sir Richard Dearlove, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, concluded the US was drawing up plans for a military campaign.

Following Christopher Andrew's authorised history of MI5 which was based on its archives and brought the story right up - to - date, Keith Jeffery, has written MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 - 1949 (Bloomsbury # 30).

The Foreign Office has confirmed that a long - standing MI6 officer has been put in charge of vetting all intelligence reports that come out of the Secret Intelligence Service.

The records of the Secret Intelligence Service, known popularly as MI6, remain closed.

Not exact matches

Whether or not there was secret «collusion» between the Trump campaign and elements of the Russian intelligence services, and whether or not those secret dealings — if they occurred — constituted crimes, much damning information is already public.

Dallas - based cyber threat intelligence firm iSIGHT Partners, working with the U.S. Secret Service, says it has determined that malicious software has «potentially infected a large number of retail information systems.»

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this month that it was «time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia,» and he criticized prior administrations as having been «squeamish» about going after publishers of state secrets.

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 - reasecret government agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service — the for - reaSecret Intelligence Service — the for - real MI6.

Set at the height of the Cold War, the French Secret Service alerts the US and President Reagan to the activities of a Soviet spy, Sergei Gregoriev (Kusturica), high up in the KGB, who is smuggling out extensive details of the KGB's intelligence - gathering capabilities.

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.

Also try Michael Smith's Six: A History of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (Biteback # 19.99).

Aldrich and Cormac's damning indictment of Blair was that he was «an incompetent intelligence consumer and poor manager of secret service.»

Labour's former director of communications at No. 10 was prone to «rushes of blood to the head» a senior Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) witness told the Chilcot inquiry.

As Foreign Secretary I am responsible for the work of GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, under the overall authority of the Prime Minister.

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.

[22] Marsden also negotiated the release of Sunday Telegraph journalist Christina Lamb and photographer Justin Sutcliffe, who had been arrested and held by the Pakistan Police and Inter-Services Intelligence secret service.

C, the new head of Britain's intelligence services (played by Andrew Scott), believes that secret agents are an anachronism, and what the world really needs is around - the - clock, around - the - world surveillance of everything.

The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission.

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.

Moore's drug empire destroys all traces of the independent intelligence agency we came to love in Secret Service, launching missiles at each of its secret locations and killing off almost every existing Secret Service, launching missiles at each of its secret locations and killing off almost every existing secret locations and killing off almost every existing agent.

Finney, who has been in remission from cancer of the prostate for several years, will play a Foreign Office mandarin with powers over the Secret Intelligence Service, described to me as a reasonably big role and full of class.

In 1973, in the midst of the Cold War, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6 and code - named the Circus, is desperately trying to stay ahead of other nations via espionage.

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20TH CENTURY FOX — «Kingsman: The Secret Service» introduced the world to Kingsman — an independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion, whose ultimate goal is to keep the world safe.

Best Bear Attack: The Revenant Best Mosasaur Attack: Jurassic World Best Blind, Flamethrowing Guitar Player: Mad Max: Fury Road The Winklevi Award for Excellence in Playing Twins: Tom Hardy, Legend Worst Romantic Chemistry: Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Secret in their Eyes)(Honorable Mentions: Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending; Chris Hemsworth and Tang Wei, Blackhat) Best Fake Soap Opera: Joy Best Fake Magazine: Trainwreck («S'Nuff») The Gay Panic Award: Get Hard (Runner - up: The D Train) Best Alec Guinness Impression: Max von Sydow, Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Liam Neeson Impression: Sean Penn, The Gunman Best Turn - of - the - Century Reference to The Atlantic: Crimson Peak The Unbroken Award for a Portrait of Endurance that Gradually Becomes an Exercise in Endurance: The Revenant Best Use of «Smells Like Teen Spirit»: Pan Best Use of «Freebird»: Kingsman: The Secret Service Best Use of «Girls Just Want To Have Fun»: Anomalisa Least Convincing Hacker: Chris Hemsworth, Blackhat Least Responsible First Responder: Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas Person You'd Least Want in Charge of National Intelligence: Andrew Scott (Sherlock's Moriarty), Spectre Most Comprehensive Annihilation of an Intended Franchise: Josh Trank, Fantastic Four Best Driver: Ben Kingsley, Learning to Drive (Runner - up: Robert DeNiro, The Intern) Worst Total Box Office: Confession of a Child of the Century, $ 74 (Runner - up: Paranoid Girls, $ 78) Most Disturbing Sex Scenes (Human Category): Love Most Disturbing Sex Scenes (Puppet Category): Anomalisa Best Performance Playing a Character Named «Toussaint»: Jimmy Jean - Louis, Joy (Runner - up: Fabrice Adde, The Revenant) The «Marry Me and I'll Buy You a Piano» Award: Far from the Madding Crowd The «That Was Beautiful; What Happened?»

However, Dominika is then approached by a secret intelligence service and offered a shiny new career path - that of a Sparrow, a secret operative trained to kill through the art of seduction.

The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission.

In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn, 2015) In the year of another Bond film, this is the spy film you need if you seek something that is filled with action, humour and real intelligence.

Oscar ® - winner Charlize Theron stars as elite MI6's most lethal assassin and the crown jewel of her Majesty's secret intelligence service, Lorraine Broughton.

«Kingsman: The Secret Service» introduced the world to Kingsman — an independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion, whose ultimate goal is to keep the world safe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In more than two hundred thousand words and twenty maps, some of the most respected and well - known military historians of our time describe the horror and heroism that defined a generation: the chaos of Europe and the Nazi reign of terror prior to D day; the far - flung fight in East Asia and the Pacific; the secret struggle of intelligence services; the final Allied push into Central Europe; and the atomic end in Japan.

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.

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.

Interestingly, cl 25 indicates that for the purposes of the Bill the Civil Service of the State excludes, inter alia, the following elements: the Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service and GCHQ.

The list of impacted agencies includes the National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Central Command (CENTCOM) and the Pacific Command (PACOM), the Secret Service, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In order to identify ownership of cryptocurrency assets, the OFAC will use existing tools, as well as data from law enforcement agencies, secret information from intelligence services and public data.