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You have been doing some proper research into the British Secret Service: are the books complete fiction or do certain elements of this really exist? Since 1994, SIS headquarters have been in the SIS Building in London, on the South Bank of the River Thames. [11] History and development [ edit ] Foundation [ edit ] Corera, Gordon, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, W&N , 2012, ISBN 0753828332, 978-0753828335, p.313-314a b c "Breach birth". The Economist. 25 January 2001. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 18 February 2013. Rachman, Gideon (18 February 2008). "My friend, the renegade spy". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 4 December 2012. Hermiston, R. (2014). The Greatest Traitor: the Secret Lives of Agent George Blake, London, Aurum, ISBN 978-1-78131046-5.

His story has been told before, not least by himself in the autobiography he wrote in retirement in Britain, but it has found its ideal chronicler in this exceptionally rewarding book by Ben Macintyre. Over the past decade, from his breakout success with Agent Zigzag to his biography of Kim Philby, A Spy Among Friends, Macintyre has built an entirely justified reputation for his true spy thrillers. Those books were good, but this one’s better. In fact, it feels a little like he has been waiting all the time to tell us about Gordievsky, since this story is so much bigger than those he has told before.W. Somerset Maugham, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, SIS agent in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917 in the Russian Empire Dorril, Stephen (2002). MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. Simon and Schuster. p. 752. ISBN 9780743217781. Corera, Gordon, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, W&N , 2012, ISBN 0753828332, 978-0753828335, p.399-400 By 2012, MI6 had reorganised after 9/11 and reshuffled its staff, opening new stations overseas, with Islamabad becoming the largest station. MI6's increase in funding was not as large as that for MI5, and it still struggled to recruit at the required rate; former members were rehired to help out. MI6 maintained intelligence coverage of suspects as they moved from the UK overseas, particularity to Pakistan. [73] Cafe, Rebecca (4 August 2011). "What do artists-in-residence do?". BBC News . Retrieved 9 July 2020.