- Great Britain, Great Britain. MI6, History, Intelligence service
"MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, is one of the great information-gathering organizations of the world, internationally renowned as the employer of the mythical but emblematic James Bond."
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Plot-driven, classical in form, earnest and epic.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Stephen Dorril
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 907
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, Free Press, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781857020939
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“Where the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Major-General Sir Stewart Menzies (pronounced 'Mingiss'), celebrated 'Victory in Europe' (VE) day is not known, but it is more than likely that he was standing at the bar of White's Club in St James's where much of the informal business of intelligence work was still undertaken.”
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