Directorate of Security and Public Affairs (MI6)

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The Director of Security and Public Affairs was a position established within the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the early 1990s, replacing the Director, Counter-Intelligence and Security.[1]

Structure

Philip H.J. Davies describes the following structure for the directorate following MI6's 1995 re-organisation:

  • Director, Security and Public Affairs (D/SPA)
    • Security Branch, Operations (SBO)
    • Security Branch, Personnel (SBP)
    • Security Branch, Vetting (SBV)
    • Counter-Intelligence (CI) Registry
    • Area Counter-Intelligence stations
    • Information Operations (I/Ops)[2]

People

Director, Security and Public Affairs (D/SPA)

Notes

  1. Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.297.
  2. Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.302.
  3. Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.796.