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The windows in the SIS building are triple glazed for security purposes. Due to the sensitive nature of MI6's work, large parts of the building are below street level, with numerous underground corridors serving the building. [15] Amenities for staff include a sports hall, gymnasium, aerobics studio, a squash court and a restaurant.
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.
Between 1964 and 1994 the office block at 100 Westminster Bridge Road, then known as Century House, was home to the UK's overseas intelligence agency, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or more commonly MI6. [2] The building was refurbished and converted into the residential Perspective Building, designed by Assael Architecture. [3] in 2001.
This has been the actual headquarters of MI6: the Vauxhall Cross building on the Thames from GoldenEye (1995) onwards. Prior to that it was a nondescript building near Whitehall, sometimes (Dr. No, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Living Daylights) ostensibly the HQ of Universal Exports, the Secret Service's front company.
Whitehall Court in the City of Westminster, England, is one contiguous building but consists of two separate constructions. The south end was designed by Thomas Archer and A. Green and constructed as a block of luxury residential apartments in 1884 [ 1 ] while the north end, occupied by the National Liberal Club , was designed by Alfred ...
MI6 is launching a recruitment drive to hire more spies from black and Asian backgrounds. MI6 job ‘more exciting than James Bond’ and not only for white men, spy says Skip to main content
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has alleged that the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 turned two staff members of unnamed Chinese central state organs into spies for the British government, its ...
The international world order is under threat in a way not seen since the Cold War, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned.. In the first joint op-ed penned by the leaders of the British and ...