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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 (MI6)|Directorate of Requirements and Production]].<ref>Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.302.</ref> According to Stephen Dorril, the merger of the previous Africa and [[MI6 Middle East Controllerate|Middle East]] controllerates took place in 1995.<ref>MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.777.</ref>

==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)<ref>Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.302.</ref>

==People==
===Controller, Middle East (C/ME)===
*[[Geoffrey Tantum]] -  sometime before 1999.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/GWeekly/Story/0,,297048,00.html Rogue agent accused of going public on MI6 names], guardian.co.uk, 19 May 1999.</ref>
*[[Mark Allen]] - head until summer 2004.<ref>Nicholas Rufford, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article486993.ece Rift at heart of MI6 as its Iraq spy controller quits], 26 September 2004.</ref>

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