MI6 Middle East and Africa Controllerate
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)
- Mark Allen - head until summer 2004.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.302.
- ↑ MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.777.
- ↑ Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.302.
- ↑ Nicholas Rufford, Rift at heart of MI6 as its Iraq spy controller quits, 26 September 2004.
