MI5 B Branch
B Branch is the division of MI5 responsible for personnel, security and training.[1]
Contents
History
In 1929, an early incarnation of B Branch was responsible for 'investigations and inquiries'.[2]
Following a 1938 re-organisation, B Branch acquired responsibility for counter-espionage and counter-subversion.[3]
In Dick White's 1953 re-organisation of the service, B Branch became responsible for personnel and establishments.[4]
Organisation
Directors
- Joseph Ball - 1926.[5]
- Oswald Allen Harker[6] - c.1929.[7]
- Guy Liddell - 1939-45[8]
- Dick White c.1946.[9]
- John Marriott - C.1951[10]
- Denis Payne - C.1973[11]
- Robert Holden - C.1981-83.[12]
B1
Recruitment and security of MI5, including vetting of staff, according to Stephen Dorril.[13] Protective security for MI5 including building security and staff vetting, according to Nick Fielding and Mark Hollingsworth.[14]
- Roger Hollis - c.1946.[15]
- Keith Thomas - Section head c.1981-83.[16]
- Maxwell Knight - B1F c.1939.[17]
B2
Personnel management and welfare.[18]
- Martin McOnachie - Section head, c.1981-83.[19]
- Stephen Lander - Deputy section head, c.1985.[20]
- R.T. Reed - B2b c.1952.[21]
B3
Management services, personal and physical security of MI5 officers and building, according to Stephen Dorril.[22]
- Michael Knight - section head, c.1981-83.[23]
B4
Responsible for Soviet counter-espionage in the 1940s B Division.[24] In the modern branch, responsible for Finance.[25]
- James Robertson - B4, 1946.[26]
- Stan Brashier - Section head, c.1981-83.[27]
- Kathleen Archer - B4a c.1939.[28]
- Roger Hollis - B4a(3) c.1939.[29]
B7
Training and recruitment, according to Hollingsworth and Fielding.[30]
=Other Officers
- William Alexander - 1919.[31]
Notes
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.865.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.127.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.134.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.327.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.126.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.98.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.127.
- ↑ Chris Hastings and Fiona Govan, MI6 urged Churchill to nuke Berlin The fear of Germany's V2 rockets in 1944 led Britain to consider the ultimate reprisal, Sunday Telegraph, 1 December 2002.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.66.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.580.
- ↑ Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain's Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p.157.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War on Terrorism, André Deutsch, 2003, pp.320-321.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.263.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.134.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.561.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.331.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.66.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.264.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.485.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.66.
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of espionage, Mainstream Publishing, 2012, p.66.
- ↑ Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War on Terrorism, André Deutsch, 2003, pp.320-321.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.150.
