British Services Security Organisation (Germany)
The British Services Security Organisation (Germany) (BSSO (G) was one of two British intelligence agencies based in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1968, its intelligence element was detached to become the British Services Intelligence Unit (Germany) (BSIU (G)). Although officially defence intelligence organisations, the two units increasingly came under the influence of MI5 and MI6, respectively. BBSO (G) was reorganised under a seconded MI5 officer from London, who beefed up the organisation's Berlin branch.[1]
The Director of BSSO (Germany) was a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Germany).[2]
Notes
- ↑ Richard J. Aldrich, British intelligence, security and Western cooperation in Cold War Germany: The OstPolitik Years in Battleground Western Europe: intelligence operations in Germany and the Netherlands in the twentieth century, edited by Ben de Jong, Beatrice de Graaf, Wies Platje; Het Spinhuis, 2007, pp.134-135.
- ↑ [JIC (Germany) Procedures in a Period of Tension and after the British Commanders in Chief take up their NATO commands and have left JHQ Rheindahlen, extract from National Archives file CAB 191/3, 23 May 1973.
