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Are there any military intelligence agencies still around the UK other than MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign)?

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Are there any military intelligence agencies still around the UK other than MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign)?

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MI5 and MI6 are actually just colloquial names for the Security Service and Secret Intelligence Service respectively, which are their official names. The terms MI5 and MI6 have not been used officially since the late 1920s. According to the mighty Wikipedia, the Directorate of Military Intelligence was a department of the British War Office until that was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence in 1964. During the First World War, British secret services were divided into numbered sections named Military Intelligence, department number x, abbreviated to MIx such as MI1 for information management. The Branch, Department, Section, and Sub-section numbers varied through the life of the department, however examples include: * MI1 Administration. * MI2 Information on Middle and Far East, Scandinavia, USA, USSR, Central and South America. * MI3 Information on Europe and the Baltic Provinces (plus USSR, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia after Summer 1941). * MI4 Geographical section – maps (transf

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