What was the role of MI7 during World War 2?
"Atkinson's character of Johnny English from the spy spoof films ""Johnny English"", ""Johnny English Reborn"" and ""Johnny English Strikes Again"" is an MI7 agent. The character was originally presented in a series of adverts for Barclaycard as MI7 agent Richard Latham. In """", former Head Girl Kelly Jones now works as an agent for MI7. MI7 MI7 was a department in the British Directorate of Military Intelligence in both the First and Second World War. The group, which was part of British Military Intelligence, was established to control propaganda and censorship. It was part of the War Office. In February"
"work. In January 1916, as part of a reorganisation of the Imperial General Staff, a new Directorate of Military Intelligence was created and MO7 became Military Intelligence Section 7. MI7 was organised in a series of sub-sections distinguished by lower-case letters in brackets. The precise duties of these sub-sections varied with time, but may be roughly summarised as follows. A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh, served in MI7(b) after recovering from wounds sustained at the Battle of the Somme. As a branch of military intelligence, paperwork was routinely destroyed to maintain strict security. A further large-scale destruction of"
"viewed on National Library of Wales website and on the Europeana 1914-18 website. Samples of the remaining 60 articles can be found in archives such as ""MI7b-the discovery of a lost propaganda archive from the Great War"". In September 1939, MI7 was reformed at the outset of the Second World War as the largely civilian Press and Propaganda section of the War Office Directorate of Military Intelligence. It was transferred to the Ministry of Information in around June 1940. The Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany served in MI7(b) during the early months of WW2 and was based at the Air"
"Admiralty. In WW2, MI8 was responsible for the extensive War Office Y Group and briefly, for the Radio Security Service. MI8 was the signals intelligence department of the War Office that ran a worldwide Y station network. Additionally, for an 18-month period, from late 1939 to mid 1941, it also ran the Radio Security Service, under the designation of MI8c, but this was quickly handed over to MI6. The remainder of this page relates only to this small organisation, with, regrettably, no information concerning the major role of MI8. The Radio Security Service evolved from the Illicit Wireless Intercept Organisation"
"Ministry building Adastral House (now known as No 1 Kingsway). The name MI7 has often been used in fiction as the title for an intelligence agency or organisation similar to the actual MI5 or MI6. In the Bond film ""Dr. No"" (1962) there are two explicit references to James Bond working for MI6; strangely, one of these (where the words are spoken by 'M') has been dubbed to ""MI7"", although the speaker's lips clearly say ""MI6"". In the ""Operation Susie"" episode of ""The Professionals"", central organization CI5 comes into conflict with elements of MI7 working to a different agenda. Rowan"
"MI9 MI9, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9, was a department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945. During World War II it was tasked with supporting available European Resistance networks and making use of them to assist Allied airmen shot down over Europe in returning to Britain. MI-9 infiltrated agents, usually by parachute, into occupied Europe. These agents would link up with a Resistance cell and organize escape-and-evasion efforts in a particular area, usually after being notified by the Resistance of the presence of downed airmen. The agents brought false papers, money and maps to assist"
"inheritor of the traditions of MI7, the clandestine propaganda and censorship arm of the British military that operated during both World Wars. Jolly served as chairman of the cross-government National Security Communications Committee in 2014–5 and was a member of the Government Communications Board during that period. Jolly was seconded briefly to the Cabinet Office in 2015 before joining UK Joint Forces Command, where he advised the Director-General, Joint Force Development on reform of British military influence operations. Jolly was the most senior serving psyops officer in British defence, equivalent to a major-general, before his retirement from government service. Since"
"referred to as ""J2"" (which refers to joint services, i.e. the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps) and took on more national security roles. G2 spent much of its early efforts combating the Anti-Treaty IRA, in the Republic of Ireland, and also operated in Northern Ireland. G2 first came to public attention during World War II (1939-1945), known in Ireland as ""The Emergency"". Although Ireland had a policy of military neutrality and was ""non-belligerent"" during WWII, G2 formed secret agreements with the United Kingdom's Military Intelligence Section 5 (MI5) and the United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor"
"the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). MI14 MI14, or British Military Intelligence, Section 14 was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence. It was an intelligence agency of the War Office, which specialised in intelligence about Germany. Originally part of MI3, during the Second World War the German sub-department's expertise and analysis became so important to the war effort that it was spun off into its own Military Intelligence 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"
"in Japan in 1946 and 1947. From 1948 to 1951, he served as a military representative to the Central Intelligence Agency. During this time, he was in charge of a controversial CIA program called PB-7, which had been formed to handle ""wet affairs"" like kidnappings and assassinations. There is no evidence that he ever carried out any, and denied that he had in testimony before the Church Committee in 1975. He served as Special Forces planning officer with the U.S. forces in Austria from 1952 to 1953. His final postings were back in the United States, as Deputy Assistant Chief"
"MI6. They decided to use him as a double agent to feed false information to the Nazis. This situation continued for about four years until the Germans stopped answering Draper's communications. In 1939, Draper joined the Royal Naval Reserve and was posted to Ford as assistant armament officer before going to Trinidad. In World War II, although 47 years of age, he became a Lieutenant Commander with postings in Scotland and the Gold Coast in 1943, before commanding No. 777 Squadron at Freetown, flying anti-submarine duties in Supermarine Walrus, Boulton Paul Defiant and Fairey Swordfish aircraft. After the war Draper"
"MI14 MI14, or British Military Intelligence, Section 14 was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence. It was an intelligence agency of the War Office, which specialised in intelligence about Germany. Originally part of MI3, during the Second World War the German sub-department's expertise and analysis became so important to the war effort that it was spun off into its own Military Intelligence 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"
"Secret Intelligence Service The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence (HUMINT) in support of the UK's national security. SIS is a member of the country's intelligence community and its Chief is accountable to the country's Foreign Secretary. Formed in 1909 as a section of the Secret Service Bureau specialising in foreign intelligence, the section experienced dramatic growth during World War I and officially adopted its current name around 1920. The name MI6 (meaning Military"
"war effort. During the Second World War the human intelligence work of the service was complemented by several other initiatives: GC&CS was the source of Ultra intelligence, which was very useful. The chief of SIS, Stewart Menzies insisted on wartime control of codebreaking, and this gave him immense power and influence, which he used judiciously. By distributing the Ultra material collected by the Government Code & Cypher School, for the first time, MI6 became an important branch of the government. Extensive breaches of Nazi Enigma signals gave Menzies and his team enormous insight into Adolf Hitler's strategy, and this was"
"MI1 to MI19, but MI5 and MI6 came to be the most recognized as they are the only ones to have remained active to this day. The Bureau was a joint initiative of the Admiralty, the War Office and the Foreign Office to control secret intelligence operations in the UK and overseas, particularly concentrating on the activities of the Imperial German Government. Its first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming. In 1910, the bureau was split into naval and army sections which, over time, specialised in foreign espionage and internal counter-espionage activities respectively. The Secret Service initially focused its"
"of the UK Secret Intelligence Service MI6, testified in court in 2007–2008's Diana, Princess of Wales inquest that it does grant a licence to kill, subject to a ""Class Seven authorisation"" from the Foreign Secretary, but that there were no assassinations conducted under Dearlove's authority. Former MI6 agent Matthew Dunn stated that MI6 agents do not need a licence to kill as a spy's primary job is to violate the law in other countries, and if an agent is compromised, he or she is at the mercy of the authorities of that country. The idea of a licence to kill"
"MI1 MI1 or British ""Military Intelligence, Section 1"" was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was set up during World War I. It contained ""C&C"", which was responsible for code breaking. Its subsections in World War I were: In 1919 MI1b and the Royal Navy's (NID25) ""Room 40"" were closed down and merged into the inter-service Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which subsequently developed into the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Cheltenham. Oliver Strachey was in MI1 during World War I. He transferred to GC&CS and served there during World"
"control. At this time, the organisation was known in Whitehall by a variety of titles including the ""Foreign Intelligence Service"", the ""Secret Service"", ""MI1(c)"", the ""Special Intelligence Service"" and even ""C's organisation"". Around 1920, it began increasingly to be referred to as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a title that it has continued to use to the present day and which was enshrined in statute in the Intelligence Services Act 1994. During the Second World War, the name MI6 was used as a flag of convenience, the name by which it is frequently known in popular culture since. In the"
"of Military Intelligence Section 5 (MI5), the name by which it is still known in popular culture. The founding head of the Army section was Vernon Kell of the South Staffordshire Regiment, who remained in that role until the early part of the Second World War. Its role was originally quite restricted; existing purely to ensure national security through counter-espionage. With a small staff and working in conjunction with the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police, the service was responsible for overall direction and the identification of foreign agents, whilst Special Branch provided the manpower for the investigation of their"
"into a massive and well-tuned system of deception during the Second World War. Beginning with the capture of an agent named Owens, codenamed Snow, MI5 began to offer enemy agents the chance to avoid prosecution (and thus the possibility of the death penalty) if they would work as British double-agents. Agents who agreed to this were supervised by MI5 in transmitting bogus ""intelligence"" back to the German secret service, the Abwehr. This necessitated a large-scale organisational effort, since the information had to appear valuable but actually be misleading. A high-level committee, the Wireless Board, was formed to provide this information."
"MI19 MI19 was a section of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. During the Second World War it was responsible for obtaining information from enemy prisoners of war. It was originally created in December 1940 as MI9a, a sub-section of MI9. A year later, in December 1941, it became an independent organisation, though still closely associated with its parent. MI19 had Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres (CSDIC) at Beaconsfield, Wilton Park, and Latimer, as well as a number overseas. Beginning in 1940, MI19 recorded conversations between German officers held comfortably at Trent Park in North"
"track down German spies. As is common within governmental bureaucracies, this caused the service to expand its role, to use its spare resources. MI5 acquired many additional responsibilities during the war. Most significantly, its strict counter-espionage role blurred considerably. It became a much more political role, involving the surveillance not merely of foreign agents but also of pacifist and anti-conscription organisations, and of organised labour. This was justified through the common belief that foreign influence was at the root of these organisations. Thus, by the end of the World War I, MI5 was a fully-fledged investigating force (although it never"
"War II. John Tiltman was seconded to MI1 shortly before it merged with Room 40. MI1 MI1 or British ""Military Intelligence, Section 1"" was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was set up during World War I. It contained ""C&C"", which was responsible for code breaking. Its subsections in World War I were: In 1919 MI1b and the Royal Navy's (NID25) ""Room 40"" were closed down and merged into the inter-service Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which subsequently developed into the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Cheltenham. Oliver Strachey was"
"the start of World War II, Vernon Kell, the head of MI5, introduced a contingency plan to deal with the problem of illicit radio transmissions. A new body was created, the Radio Security Service (RSS), headed by Major J.P.G. Worlledge. Until 1927, Worlledge had commanded a Wireless Company in Palestine. His brief was to ""intercept, locate and close down illicit wireless stations operated either by enemy agents in Great Britain or by other persons not being licensed to do so under Defence Regulations, 1939"". As a security precaution, RSS was given the cover designation of MI8(c). Working from cells at"
"VII Corps (United States) The VII Corps of the United States Army was one of the two principal corps of the United States Army Europe during the Cold War. Activated in 1918 for World War I, it was reactivated for World War II and again during the Cold War. During both World War II and the Cold War it was subordinate to the Seventh Army, or USAREUR and was headquartered at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, West Germany, from 1951 until it was redeployed to the US and inactivated in 1992. VII Corps was organized at the end of World War"
"the data with real time location to prevent future casualties. After the Second World War MI4 took responsibility for hiring of premises in various parts of the British Empire, disposal of armaments and military equipment no longer required and hence a division named ""Hirings and Disposals"" was established. Employees were transferred for short term assignments such as Cyprus, to procure tents and housing for Jews who were prevented from continuing a voyage to settle in Palestine. MI4 officers were also sent to Cairo, their main role being to dispose of post war Military equipment, including demountable camp sites, and armoured"
"MI5 and MI6 (also officially defunct titles) have continued to be used colloquially for their respective successor agencies. One key role that the data from MI4 still performs is the avoidance and removal of land mines, as they were heavily mapped in conjunction with the WRAITH initiative during World War II. Some of the data collected by MI4 was subsumed into the IMN (Intelligence Mainframe Network) at Cheltenham. This data has since been absorbed into the aerial reconnaissance unit of GCHQ in Cheltenham, where director Ray Mitinkel oversees the updating process using GPS and satellite photography technology to accurately map"
"Abel also painted a replica of the Corps flag. Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army) The Military Intelligence Corps (sometimes referred to as MI) is the intelligence branch of the United States Army. The primary mission of military intelligence in the United States Army is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence and electronic warfare support to tactical, operational and strategic-level commanders. The Army's intelligence components produce intelligence both for Army use and for sharing across the national intelligence community. Intelligence personnel were a part of the Continental Army from its founding in 1775. In January 1863, Major General"
"item of news, while the brutal fate of those fifty RAF officers was in danger of becoming old history."" London Cage The London Cage was an MI19 prisoner of war facility during and after World War II to mainly interrogate captured Nazis and SS personnel. The unit, which was located within numbers 6,7 and 8 Kensington Palace Gardens in London, was investigated itself after accusations it often used torture to extract information. It was wound down in early 1948. The United Kingdom systematically interrogated all of its prisoners of war. A ""cage"" for interrogation of prisoners was established in 1940"
"therefore, intended to operate as a long term resistance organisation. The latter was the responsibility of the Secret Intelligence Service Section VII, which would have only begun to expand its operations once the country had actually been occupied, thus confining knowledge of its existence only to those men and women who would have been available at the time. In addition, the Auxiliary Units included a network of civilian Special Duties personnel, recruited to provide a short-term intelligence gathering service, spying on enemy formations and troop movements. Reports were to be collected from dead letter drops and, from 1941, relayed by"
"MI8 MI8, or ""Military Intelligence, Section 8"" was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. It originally consisted of four sections: MI8(a), which dealt with wireless policy; MI8(b), based at the General Post Office, dealt with commercial and trade cables; MI8(c) dealt with the distribution of intelligence derived from censorship; and MI8(d), which liaised with the cable companies. During World War I MI8 officers were posted to the cable terminals at Poldhu Point and Mullion in Cornwall and Clifden in County Galway, continued until 1917 when the work was taken over by the"
"tasked with espionage on the Western Front. Referred to by modern historians as 'Hitler's favourite intelligence analyst,' However, a staunch Christian with beliefs at odds with the Nazi Party, historians believe that he led a double life by deliberately misleading Hitler and the German general staff. A key promoter of intelligence gained from British campaigns like Operation Mincemeat (the deception plan for the Allied invasion of Sicily) and Operation Bodyguard (disguising the intended target of the Normandy landings), his actions may have helped to save thousands of lives. Arrested in the immediate aftermath of the July 20 plot thanks to"
"the Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 6 (MI6), names by which the Security Service and Secret Intelligence Service are frequently known in popular culture today. The Naval Intelligence Division led the Royal Navy's highly successful cryptographic efforts, Room 40 (later known as NID25). The decryption of the Zimmermann Telegram was described as the most significant intelligence triumph for Britain during World War I, and one of the earliest occasions on which a piece of signals intelligence influenced world events. The Imperial War Cabinet was the British Empire's wartime coordinating body. In 1919, the Cabinet's Secret Service Committee, recommended that a"