SECURITY
THE British Security
Service is a rambl- ing organisation made up of nine separate agencies, each respon- sible to a different Mini- ster:-
Army
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1961.
AT A MOMENT WHEN THE WORD IS ON EVERYONE'S LIPS...
THIS IS THE SET-UP
Special Branch agents carry
M.İ.a t arrests for
whose officers have no power of ar- rest.
M.1.5terally the Artla division of Military Intel- Hgence but now with no direct In security work arrests are
to rare connections-reports
because the authorities the Prime Minister.
usually prefer to know rather Staffed by elvilians, mainly than det. ex-Service officers, lawyers, and ex-police oficials, it respon sible for security at home and for controlling enemy agents and msbversive activities by Com- munists and Fascists.
Anonymous
unknown.
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
installations.
Since the split up of the Supply Ministry, it is also responsible for preventing leakages of informa- tion on germ and gas warfare, and tank research,
The War Office depends great-
This novel is issued as a con- idential document to military attaches.
Air
Vice-Marshal
6 Air Intelligence, headed by Sidney Bufton, deals with all foreign air ments. It niso covers security on rocket develop-
RAF. airfields, bomb dumps and rocket alles.
y on information from "open" Aviation sources sent in by military at-
taches.
Rockets
Ministry Security one of the biggest and departments. most important Responsible for security on ntom- le weapons, guided missiles, air- craft, radar, explosive, and guns. Covers many secret research stations.
Annual cost of the Secret Naval Intelligence, under Service has been built up to 4
rear-Admiral N, E. Denning,
and strategic £7,000,000 a year, but the total gathers information on foreign They argue that is more profitable to curb the activities force of professional agents i warships, naval equipment and of known agents than to arrest still small. them and have them rapidly re-
The great bulk of foreign In- It also covers security of ships, played by others who would be telligence is culled from "open" including United States ships sources-from selentille, techni- visiting British ports, dockyards, The Secret Service, piso call-cal, and trade journals, from re- and the establishments run by ports of lectures, company re- the Admiralty for research on ed M.I.G.. 14 an organisation ports, and newspapers.
electronics, ráðar and anti-sub- sif agents und counter-splex
marine warfare. mainly operating abroad, ti s Now, M.1.5 bas few under-
run by the Foreign Office under cover agens because sucressive
a civilian whose identity is ses Parliaments have always ob- cret. jected to increasing its size. Agents send in reports of new From the chief downwards its weapons, troop movements, and employees are expected to re-
the alput of factories and main anonymous except for a
mines. few "front men" who ore named when giving evidence in trials. The nerve-centre of M.1.5 is a Heitistry of Dossiers foentes! in n basement in London where de- talls of more than 2,000,000 peu-| ple are on Bie.
More than 100 girls employed
Visiting ships
5
of
Mary Intelligence, led by Major-Generni R. E. Lloyd. To stress the importance A branch called the Foreign to made up of more than a dozen these sources, the chief of one Office Intelligence Unit analyses M.1. divisions in the War Once, M.I. division wrote, A novel to political information and facts for collecting and interpreting explain how seemingly trivial set in from "open" sources by Intelligence about foreign armies information can plece together attaches at our embassies abroad, and equipment.
to form a revealing pleture.
-and this is Portland
there are rosjamibile for their PORTLAND is a grey, TESTING AREA FOR 'UNDERSURFACE WARFARE'
Ing that wil material gathered
by nutside agents is filed in the right dossiers,
If an M.1.5 investigator wants
graceless island,
with grey ships dancing
to know whether there is inter-in attendance, It is unin-
ration on file about foreign
born selentist or doubtful diplo-
wat, these girls are responsible fur making the search.
Society girls
viting, cold, and bleak.
for Eve daya as a guest of the I was there a short while ago
Royal Navy In M.S. Osprey.
.
By DENIS PITTS
underwater detection) lako "It's ke all this ruddy lot here their cues from the helicopters. at Portland.
work,
Agents also operate in private frms carrying out Government contracts.
Mr. L. M. Curzon is in charge.
The Atom men
The
Atomto Energy Au- thority operates its own se- by curity department, heated Mr. Geoffrey Patterson. It con- trols a big staff of security men at, the various secret establish- ments and a force of investiga- tors, mainly ex-policemen, who screen applicants for atom jobs by making undercover inquiries. Authority The exercise ends with the "They give us wonderful new The Atomic Energy
to the Science dropping of a tib. grenade which toys to play with and the ald-is responsible makes a noisy "kerrack" in the est, tiredest, most barnacled ships Minister. submarine. The submarine re- to test them in."
For all its electronic magic, The Defence Ministry oper- Icases smoke float to let the
ates the Jolut Intelligence The sea arouml Portland Is
form of sub-surface craft know whether the the sonar busy does not always
Bureau, headed by Sir Kenneth the testing area for "under- sonar buoy- surface warfare." At 7.30 each marine detection corried by hell- rede was near or not.
It is an Involved and exciting An elaborate "screen" was set Strong. It is a central informa- The girls are inninty your morning a little fleet of destroy
war game! Unless you happen to up for the arrival of the Ameri- tion picked up by the sepurate daughters of Society l Ser-era and frigates and Innes-
the water's surface and lay it day in, day out, winter can nuclear submarine Skate Intelligence departments is pool-
ed and correlated. vice families recruited largely sweepers churn out of the har- low
pletely undetected, in the middle It can call in outside experts to on the recommendation of girls bour. And each evening at 4.30 sends out a series of radia mnd summer, as they do in Port- which arrived, and arose, com-
Intciligence of Portland Bay.
help in studying who have worked there
The hellcopters pre-they churn back and most of the pulses which can trace any sub- vlously.
rews hend homeward to married marine within a wide area.
The anti-submarine depart-Endings and photographs..
The bureau presents its main quarters In Weymouth.
10 the Joint Intelli- Andings gence Committee a top-level group which inclutles the direc- tors of Naval, Alr, and Military Intelligence, the head of M.LG,
lite and the chief of
Secret Service.
The "considered views" of Com- the Joint Intelligence millee are given to the Cabinet
The M.15 chiefs believe this in the best way of kergdint out pru-Communist girls who might destroy valuable records.
copters,
The buoy floats a few feet be-
land.
ment of Osprey takes up only Grenade
Sonar buoy
The helicopters
set out frizo
which they used during my stay had a ten- dency to fall into the water. Six were lost during 1950, although a few square miles of the sea their crews managed to escape. off Portland. In another sea area The submarine in which I tra- off St. Alban's Head more ships Sperlai Brauch of Scotland The unmarried men go to the thele Portiorid base and hover, velled was forced to surface at have a long and tedious sojourn Yard, responsible to
a venulation while new weapon-launching de- the little pubs of Portland town, in threes, some 20ft. over the speed--because
to close and vices are tested. Home Secretary, duplicates the where they play long, uproarious water, their engines running at hatch had failed
The research on these is done "cotinter-espionage dlution of games of darts and skittles or full power, while their observers sen-water was rushing into the
but specialises in listen to sa juke-boxes in the plot the movements of submar- batteries with the attendant risk in a massive million-gallon tank
ines from the radar screen. of chlorine gas.
of the Admiralty Hydro-Ballistic watching allens arct political coffee bars,
The ship
frigates and helicopters In nearby
This is bound to happen in a Centre in a colder and even agitators. It is also responsible i for the safety of royalty and which I joined were "working operators of the more conven- ship which was built in 1944," bleaker place near Glenfruin in
engine room artificer. Scotland. Jup" an intricate device known as tional asdie (another device for said its key officials.
M.1.5..
young
by the Defence Minister.
London Express Service. i
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