Directorate of Military Intelligence

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The Directorate of Military Intelligence ( DMI ) was founded in 1888 as a military intelligence service in the British War Department . It was replaced in 1946 by the Defense Intelligence Staff . Of the DMI sections, the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) are still active today .

List of Military Intelligence Sections

  • MI1 - cryptology during the First World War
  • MI2 - Russian and Scandinavian section
  • MI3 - Eastern Europe
  • MI4 - map section in World War II
  • MI5 - Domestic Intelligence
  • MI6 - Foreign Secret Service
  • MI7 - Propaganda and Censorship
  • MI8 - radio reconnaissance in World War II
  • MI9 - Agent control and repatriation of military personnel from the sphere of influence of the Axis powers
  • MI10 - Weapons and Technical Analysis in World War II
  • MI11 - Security Police
  • MI12 - military censorship
  • MI14 - Information Gathering, now MI-6
  • MI15 - aerial photography
  • MI16 - Scientific Intelligence Service
  • MI17 - Secretariat
  • MI19 - Gathering information from prisoners of war in World War II, maintained Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centers (CSDIC, e.g. London Cage )
  • MI (JIS) - Axis planning staff
  • MI L (R) - Russian cooperation
  • MI L - military attachés

The section designations MI13 and MI18 were not used.

literature

  • Peter Gudgin: Military Intelligence: The British Story. Arms and Armor Press, 1989, ISBN 0-85368-924-5 , pp. 55-68.
  • FH Hinsley et al .: British Intelligence in the Second World War. Vol II, HMSO, 1981, ISBN 0-11-630934-2 .
  • MRD Foot, JM Langley: MI9: Escape and Evasion 1939-1945. The Bodley Head, 1979, OCLC 229112177 , pp. 171-172.
  • Anthony Clayton: Forearmed: A History of the Intelligence Corps. Brassey's (UK), 1993, ISBN 0-08-037701-7 , pp. 81-91.

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