The Intelligence Corps (Int Corps) is a

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of the

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. It is responsible for gathering, analysing and disseminating

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and also for

counter-intelligence Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting ac ...

and security. The Director of the Intelligence Corps is a

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History

1814–1914

In the 19th century, British intelligence work was undertaken by the Intelligence Department of the

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. An important figure was Sir Charles Wilson, a

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who successfully pushed for reform of the War Office's treatment of topographical work. In the early 1900s intelligence gathering was becoming better understood, to the point where a

organisation (

MI5 MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Gov ...

) was formed by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DoMI) under Captain (later Major-General)

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; overseas intelligence gathering began in 1912 by

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 intelligenc ...

under Commander (later Captain)

Mansfield Smith-Cumming Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming (1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923) was a British naval officer who served as the first Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Orig ...

1914–1929

Although the first proposals to create an intelligence corps came in 1905, the first Intelligence Corps was formed in August 1914 and originally included only officers and their servants. It left for France on 12 August 1914. The

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was formed to monitor the ground, and provided aerial photographs for the Corps to analyse. During the

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, Intelligence Corps operatives were used to monitor the

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. On

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15 British Military Officers and civilians were shot and killed during multiple attacks in Dublin. Of the 15 killed six were Army Intelligence Officers, two were Courts Martial Officers, one was a senior Staff Officer serving with Irish Command ( Brevet Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery), three policemen (all former British military), two civilians (all former British military) and one local civilian. Following the war the Intelligence Corps was gradually scaled down and disbanded entirely in 1929; intelligence matters were left to individual unit officers.

Second World War

On 19 July 1940 a new Intelligence Corps was created by Army Order 112 and has existed since that time. The Army had been unprepared for collecting intelligence for deployment to France, and the only intelligence had been collected by Major Sir

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. The Corps trained operatives to parachute at

RAF Ringway RAF Ringway was a Royal Air Force satellite station at Ringway, Cheshire, England, near Manchester. It was operational from 1939 until 1957. The site is now occupied by Manchester Airport. Prewar years Manchester's first municipal airfield w ...

; some of these were then dropped over France as part of the

Special Operations Executive Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local Resistance during World War II, resistance movements during World War II. ...

(SOE). Intelligence Corps officers were involved in forming the highly-effective

Long Range Desert Group The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Originally called the Long Range Patrol (LRP), the unit was founded in Egypt in June 1940 by Major Ralph Alger Bagnold, ...

, and Corps officer Lt Col Peter Clayton was one of the four founders of the

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(SAS). Around 40 per cent of British Army personnel at

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were in the Intelligence Corps.History of the Intelligence Corps, p. 4 The Combined Allied Intelligence Corps as it was known in Malta, began recruiting in 1940 following Italy's entry into the war on the side of Germany.Recorded interview with Captain "C.M." (Rtd) of the Combined Allied Intelligence Corps (1941–1946) at Sliema, Malta on 7 November 2012 Among its many responsibilities in the Mediterranean Theatre were debriefing and interrogation of high-ranking prisoners of war in East Africa following

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's invasion of

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("Eldoret" P.O.W. Camp no. 365 being one example), counter-intelligence operations following

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the Allied invasion of Sicily in August 1943, and implementation of the Allied Screening Commission. The commission was established by Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander a few days after the fall of Rome in June 1944 to identify and reimburse Italian civilians who had assisted Allied escapees.

Cold War

Throughout the

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, Intelligence Corps

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and

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(with changed insignia) were posted behind the

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, to join in the intelligence-gathering activities of the British Commanders'-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany (

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Northern Ireland

Many members of the Intelligence Corps served in

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during "

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". Units such as the

Military Reaction Force The Military Reaction Force, Military Reconnaissance Force or Mobile Reconnaissance Force (MRF)Taylor, Peter (2001). ''Brits: The War Against the IRA''. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 128–130. was a covert intelligence-gathering and counterinsurgenc ...

Special Reconnaissance Unit The Special Reconnaissance Unit, also known as the 14 Field Security and Intelligence Company, was a unit of the British Army's Intelligence Corps which conducted covert operations in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It conducted undercov ...

Force Research Unit The Force Research Unit (FRU) was a covert military intelligence unit of the British Army's Intelligence Corps. It was established in 1980 during the Troubles to obtain intelligence from terrorist organisations in Northern Ireland by recruiti ...

and

14 Intelligence Company The Special Reconnaissance Unit, also known as the 14 Field Security and Intelligence Company, was a unit of the British Army's Intelligence Corps which conducted covert operations in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It conducted undercov ...

contained Corps soldiers and officers.

Designation

On 1 February 1985 the corps was officially declared an 'Arm' (combat support) instead of a 'Service' (rear support).

Corps traditions

Intelligence Corps personnel wear a distinctive

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green beret with a

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consisting of a union rose (a red rose with a white centre) between two

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branches and surmounted by a crown. Their motto is ''Manui Dat Cognitio Vires'' ("Knowledge gives Strength to the Arm"). The corps' quick march is ''The Rose & Laurel'' while its slow march is

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's ''Trumpet Tune & Ayre''.History of the Intelligence Corps, p. 5 Within the British Army, soldiers of the Intelligence Corps are often referred to as Green Slime, or sometimes simply 'Slime', due to the colour of their beret.

Locations

Their headquarters, formerly at Maresfield Camp, East Sussex, then

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, moved in 1997 to

MOD Chicksands Ministry of Defence Chicksands, or more simply MOD Chicksands, is a tri-service British Armed Forces facility in Bedfordshire, approximately north of London. It is named after Chicksands Priory, a 12th-century Gilbertine monastery located within ...

in Bedfordshire along with the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC). DISC was renamed as

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in January 2015. The Intelligence Corps Museum was created in 1969, and later renamed as the Military Intelligence Museum, now also at Chicksands. Because the museum is on a working military base, it can be visited by appointment only.

Training and promotion

The corps has a particularly high proportion of

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s, many of them commissioned from the ranks, and also a high percentage of female members. Non-commissioned personnel join as an Operator Military Intelligence (OPMI) or Operator Military Technical Intelligence (OPTI). They do basic 14-week military training at either the

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, or the

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, Winchester. OPMI/OPTI soldiers then will complete a 20-week special-to-arm training at Templer Training Delivery Wing, Chicksands, at the end of which they are promoted to

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and posted to a

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Current units

Intelligence Corps battalions are under the command of the

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within

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. * Corps Headquarters, at

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**Specialist Group Military Intelligence (Army Reserve), at

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, Hermitage **Land Intelligence Fusion Centre, at Denison Barracks, Hermitage *1 Military Intelligence Battalion, at Gaza Barracks,

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– supporting 1st (UK) Division **14 Military Intelligence Company **15 Military Intelligence Company **16 Military Intelligence Company, at Merville Barracks,

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– supporting 16 Air Assault Brigade * 2 Military Intelligence (Exploitation) Battalion, at

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** Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Company **21 Military Intelligence Company, at

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, London **34 Military Intelligence Company, in Hampstead, London * 4 Military Intelligence Battalion, at Ward Barracks,

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– supporting

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**Detachments, at

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and in

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(Reserve), at

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* 7 Military Intelligence Battalion (Reserve), in

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**73 Military Intelligence Company, at Denison Barracks, Hermitage **74 Military Intelligence Company, at Raglan Barracks,

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*Army Element

Notable personnel

* :Intelligence Corps officers

References

Works cited

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External links and further reading

Official website

Intelligence Corps Association

3 MI Bn (V) – London

5 MI Bn – Edinburgh

Military Intelligence MuseumThe Intelligence Corps in the Second World War
The Services 1930 – 1956 at www.BritishMilitaryHistory.co.uk {{The British Army Nationstate regiments/corps of military intelligence 1914 establishments in the United Kingdom Military units and formations established in 1914 Military units and formations disestablished in 1929 Military units and formations established in 1940 Corps of the British Army in World War I Corps of the British Army in World War II