MI14, or British Military Intelligence, Section 14 was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence. It was an

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of the

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, which specialised in intelligence about Germany. Originally part of MI3, during the

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the German sub-department's expertise and analysis became so important to the war effort that it was spun off into its own

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section. One of MI14's most valuable sources, codenamed COLUMBA, consisted of reports returned by pigeons dropped over Nazi-occupied countries in packs containing a miniature spying kit. Now defunct, the foreign intelligence remit is handled by the

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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 ...

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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 ...

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