Secret Intelligence Service
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The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) supplies the British Government with foreign intelligence. It operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) alongside the internal Security Service (MI5), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Defence Intelligence (DI).
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See also
- List of intelligence agencies
- Charles Cumming author, former SIS officer
- Richard Tomlinson author, former SIS officer
- Graham Greene author, former SIS officer
- David Cornwell (John le Carré) author, former SIS officer
- Ian Fleming author, former NID officer
- Ralph Izzard journalist, author, former NID officer
- Krystyna Skarbek agent, friend of Ian Fleming, inspiration for Vesper Lynd
- Paul Dukes, SIS officer and author
- Sidney Reilly, Ace of Spies, worked for SIS and others, Intelligence mentor of Sir Henry Osborne Oswald
- James Bond, fictional agent
- Alex Rider, fictional agent
- Horst Kopkow, SS officer who worked for SIS post Second World War
- Valentine Vivian Vice-Chief of the SIS and head of counter-espionage, Section V
- Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), SIS officer and Soviet agent
- Donald Maclean (cryptonym: Homer), SIS officer and Soviet agent
- Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks), SIS officer and Soviet agent
- Anthony Blunt (cryptonym: Johnson), MI5 officer and Soviet agent
- John Cairncross (cryptonym: Liszt), SIS officer and Soviet agent
- Death of Gareth Williams, seconded to SIS from GCHQ, died in suspicious circumstances
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