MI6 Middle East and Africa Controllerate

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The Middle East and Africa Controllerate is reported to be a section of the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as (MI6). According to intelligence author Philip H.J. Davies, the Controllerate is part of the Directorate of Requirements and Production.[1] According to Stephen Dorril, the merger of the previous Africa and Middle East controllerates took place in 1995.[2]

Structure

  • Controller, Middle East (C/ME)
    • Security Branch, Operations (SBO)
    • Requirements, Middle East (R/ME)
    • Production Sections (P Sections)
    • Middle East natural cover section (excluding Iran)(UKD)
    • Iran natural cover section (UKP)[3]

People

Controller, Middle East (C/ME)

Notes

  1. Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.302.
  2. MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.777.
  3. Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.302.
  4. Rogue agent accused of going public on MI6 names, guardian.co.uk, 19 May 1999.
  5. Nicholas Rufford, Rift at heart of MI6 as its Iraq spy controller quits, 26 September 2004.