n orice carte, film sau serial care implic spionajul sau securitatea naional din

Marea Britanie sau din Statele Unite sunt menionate MI5 i MI6 sau FBI i CIA.
Totui, nu toi pot spune care sunt diferenele dintre cele dou organizaii. Dar
nainte de a afla care sunt deosebirile, este nevoie de o introducere n istoricul celor
mai faimoase agenii din cadrul a dou dintre superputerile lumii.

1909 Primul Birou de Servicii Secrete al Marii Britanii

Cu 5 ani naintea Primului Rzboi Mondial, Marea Britanie punea la cale Biroul su de
Servicii Secrete, reprezentnd o singur agenie care s se ocupe de toate pericolele prin
care trecea ara. Aceast organizaie reprezenta combinarea biroului de Amiralitate i
Biroului de Rzboi i urma s controleze operaiunile secrete ale inteligenei. Biroul de
Servicii Secrete se concentra pe planul naional, dar i internaional, n mod special pe
Guvernul Germaniei Imperiale. Iniial, activitatea era mprit ntre echipa naval i
armata, ulterior seciunile fiind atribuite spionajului internaional i naional.

Odat cu nceperea rzboiului, seciunea de spionaj internaional a primit denumirea de

MI6 nume provenit de la Millitary Intelligence 6 i folosit pn n prezent. Totodat,
necesitatea de a avea agenii niate a fost urgent, astfel nct au luat natere alte 15
agenii. MI1 se ocupa n timpului rzboiului de spargerea codurilor, MI4 de hri i
fotografii aeriale, MI7 de propagand, MI8 de intercepii, MI9 de rezisten i de
operaiuni sub acoperire, MI10 de analize tehnice pentru arme, MI11 de securitatea
militar, MI12 de ccenzur, MI15 de aprarea aerian, MI16 de inteligena tiinific i
MI19 de interogri. n plus, MI2, MI3 i MI15 reprezentau agenii specializate n
supravegherea anumitor zone geografice:Rusia i Peninsula Scandinav, Europa de Est i
respectiv, Germania.

Despre MI13 i MI17 nu se tie nimic. Este posibil ca aceste dou nume de agenii s fi
rmas nefolosite sau s reprezinte cazuri clasificate cel mai probabil.

Dup terminarea celor dou rzboaie mondiale, atribuiile acestor agenii au fost preluate
de ctre singurele dou care au rmas:MI5 i MI6.
n prezent, MI6 este n continuare responsabil pentru implicarea internaional a Marii
Britanii n aspecte externe alturi de inteligena de aprare, n timp ce MI5 reprezint
securitatea domestic. n cazurile speciale, cele dou agenii colaboreaz pentru
rezolvarea rapid a conflictelor.

De cealalt parte a Atlanticului

Statele Unite ale Americii i-au nfiinat primul Birou de Investigaii n 1908, acesta
reprezentnd dorina preedintelui Theodore Roosevelt de a crea o agenie independent
de Ministerul de Justiie, care de multe ori nu avea destul personal pentru a se ocupa de
soluionarea problemelor.

De-a lungul timpului, Biroul de Investigaii a fot denumit i Divizia de Investigaie,

ulterior transformndu-se n Biroul Federal de Investigaii (Federal Bureau of
Investigation FBI) aa cum l cunoatem astzi. Responsabilitatea principal FBI este
securitatea naional, aprnd ara de orice posibil atac, precum MI5.

Totui, FBI nu trebuie confundat cu NSA (National Security Agency). n timp ce FBI se
ocup de protejarea Statelor Unite mpotriva atacurilor teroriste sau cibernetice sau de
spionaj, NSA supravegheaz, descifreaz i prelucreaz comunicaiile electronice
internaionale.

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) nu are totui o istorie la fel de lung precum FBI, fiind
o agenie creat n 1947 la cererea preedintelui de atunci, Harry Truman. Nevoia de a
crea o organizaie de inteligen pentru situaii externe a luat natere dup atacul
neprevzut asupra Pearl Harbor. Astfel, CIA se ocup doar de probleme internaionale,
precum MI6.

De notat este c nu toate statele au Serviciile Secrete mprite n dou. Printre statele
care au o organigram asemntoare Marii Britanii sau Statelor Unite se mai numr
i:Frana, Coreea de Sud, Australia.
at's the difference between MI5 and MI6? What happened to MI1 - MI4 and are
there agencies with higher numbers (MI7, MI8, etc.)?
Matt Denham, Dorchester UK

I believe the difference is like the FBI and CIA in the USA - one is for domestic
intelligence and one is for international intelligence. But I'm not sure which one is
which. I also think that some of the other numbers may have been active in
intelligence and of the like during the world wars.

Benjy Arnold, London UK

MI (Military Intelligence) had agencies numbered up to 19, but not all at the same
time. Most were folded into MI5, MI6 or GCHQ after the war. I've found the
following after a few web searches: MI1 (Codebreaking), MI2 (Russia and
Scandinavia), MI3 (Eastern Europe), MI4 (Aerial Reconnaisance), MI8 (Military
Communication Interception), MI9 (Undercover operations), MI10 (Weapons
analysis) MI14 and MI15 (German specialists), MI19 (PoW debriefing), MI17
(Military Intelligence "Head Office"). Conspiracy theorists will have you believe
that there is still a clandestine MI7 dealing with matters extraterrestrial.

Allan, Wimbledon UK

MI5 deals with threats inside the UK, and MI6 combats overseas threats, as
anyone who has seen a recent James Bond film knows from the shots of MI6
headquarters at Vauxhall in London.

James, London UK

MI5 - Domestic intelligence, MI6 - foreign intelligence. Interestingly, that makes

James Bond a member of MI6.

J R Scott, Aberdeen

MI5 is formally known as the Secret Service, and deals with matters internal, and
MI6 should be known as the Secret Intelligence Sevice and deals with extrenal
affairs.

JB, London

MI5 is the British security service while MI6 is the British foreign intelligence
service. Crudely, MI6 are "our" spies while MI5 is there to catch "their" spies. It
gets a little more complicated in that MI6 has its own "counter-intelligence"
section. "MI5/MI6" were the original designations when both organisations came
 under the War Office, now the MOD - "MI" stands for military intelligence. Their
official names (acquired in the 30s) are the Security Service (MI5) and SIS, the
Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The former is responsible to the Home Office
and the latter to the Foreign Office.

John Burnes, Manchester Lancashire

MI5 investigates matters of national security in the UK (investigates terrorists,

counterinsurgency, etc). Equivalent to the US National Security Agency (NSA).
MI6 (now SIS) gathers intelligence pertenant to the UK's international affairs -
spying on Iraq for example. Equivalent to the US's CIA (Central Intelligence
Agency) NCIS (national criminal investigation squad) are top ranking police
officers dealing with high profile crimes, and have little to do with intelligence,
though often co-operate with intelligence agencies for practical reasons.
Equivalent to FBI.

Anonymous,

Anonymous' contention that NCIS stands for National Criminal Investigation

Squad is a load of old tosh. NCIS is the National Criminal Intelligence Service,
and far from being merely "top ranking police officers dealing with high profile
crimes" it busies itself with identifying new criminal trends, acting as a clearing
house for information from police forces around the UK, and liaising with Interpol,
Europol, and various intelligence service around the world.

Paul Bartholomew, Harrogate England

Also contrary to Anonymous' reply, MI5 is more equivalent to the US FBI. The UK
equivalent of the NSA (National Security Agency) would be GCHQ.

David, Madrid Spain

According to an American PBS documentary on the Allied Prisoners of War held

in Colditz Castle during the Second World War, MI9 existed primarily to aid the
escape of British soldiers held captive. One of the principal techniques MI9 used
was to mail contraband to prisoners hidden in Red Cross care parcels. German
money was hidden inside a Monopoly board, and decks of playing cards were
sent containing military-grade maps of Germany.

Christopher, Boston, Massachusetts USA

MI-8 was a cover name for S.O.E.--Special Operations Executive, the ad hoc
covert ops and dirty tricks organization during WW2. See M.R.D. Foot's SOE,
The Special Operations Executive 1940 - 1946. As mentioned above, MI-9 was
the escape and evasion apparat. (Mr. Foot has apparently also written a book on
that entity.)
 John C.Watson, Amherst, MA U.S.A.

They're all coming to get me...

Bob, Exeter, UK

MI5 and MI6 were originally part of the Military Operations and numbered MO5
and MO6, lower numbers dealing with various administrative matters. They kept
the same numbers when Military Intelligence was formed. I think that MI7 dealt
with censorship.

Jim Gilbert, Santa Ynez California

Well here is the list I've managed to come up with from searching on the net, no
clues for what MI12 or MI18 were/are though. MI1 Codebreaking, MI2 Russia
and Scandinavia, MI3 Eastern Europe, Germany? MI4 Aerial Reconnaisance MI5
domestic intelligence MI6 foreign intelligence MI7 Propaganda MI8 Military
Communication Interception, MI9 Undercover operations, /POW escape MI10
Weapons analysis MI11 Field security police MI12 ??? MI13 Reconnaissance
MI14 and MI15 German specialists, Mi16 royal secret service MI17 Military
Intelligence "Head Office". MI18 ??? MI19 PoW debriefing,

T Swindells, Hampshire

A full list of Miliary Intelligence (MI) Departments during world war 2 can be found
on pages 147 and 148 of "Codebreaker in the Far East" by Alan Stripp, published
in 1989 by Oxford University Press. This goes numerically up to MI19 plus MIL,
MIR and MIX. The author says that the whole series has now been replaced
anyway.

Alastair Thomson, Northampton, UK

MI1-director of military intelligence; also cryptography MI2-responsible for Russia

and Scandinavia MI3-responsible for Germany and eastern Europe MI4-Aerial
reconnaissance during world war two MI5-domestic intelligence and security MI6-
foreign intelligence and security MI8-interception & interpretation of
communications MI9-clandestine operations (escape and evasion) MI10-
weapons and technical analysis MI11-field security police MI14-German
specialists MI17-secretariat body for MI departments MI19-POW debriefing unit

Matt, Bracknell, Berkshire

Contrary to the above answers likening MI5 to the FBI, that's rubbish too. The
FBI is not an intelligence service AT ALL. It has nothing whatsoever to do with
the US Intelligence services and is simply the "Federal Bureau of Investigation".
The FBI is a national and federally empowered police force - to investigate crime.
 They do NOT collect clandestine intelligence or have anything to do with the
military. The NSA is the nearest equivalent to MI5 but GCHQ's role may well
overlap in terms of jurisdiction. GCHQ collaborates with all the British intelligence
services on a daily basis, both cross-checking information or providing useful
intelligence for the MI community. GCHQ regularly recruit analysts, and have
large teams who can understand and verify whether information is up to date, or
translate documents and coded messages. GCHQ are experts on things like
terrorist groups, and can almost immediately decide whether a groups' claim to
an attack is genuine.

John, London

At which time we the british empire have been called upon to defend itself, its
allies and dependancies it became nessacery to form a number of departments
and agencies. Over the years these dapartments have served a number of
different roles and purposes. in answer to the above question: MI1 Code
breaking, MI2 Russia and Scandinavia, MI3 Easton Europe, MI4 Aerial
Reconnaissance, MI5 Domestic Intelligence, now The Security Service, MI6
Foreign Intelligence, now the Secret Intelligence service, MI7 Propoganda and
censorship, MI8 Signals Intelligence, MI9 Undercover operations supporting
POW, MI10 Weapons and technical Analysis, MI11 Field Intelligence, MI12
Military Censorship, MI13 Remains Classified, MI14 German Intelligence, MI15
Aerial Photography, MI16 Scientific Intelligence, MI17 Secretarial section, MI18
Remains Classifed, MI19 Extraction of information from foreign POWs MI20 -
MI25 remain Classified. It is important to also remember that most of these
where small departments and at the end of world war 2 they were mostly all
merged into MI5, MI6, GCHQ and other agencies. most british intelligence
agencies still remain classified to the general public x the only reason this
information has been released is that these agencies have all now terminated
activity and new agencies have replaced them. Captain S.S DG of MI section 25

Captain S, England

I love these responses. I am watching a movie call MI-5. Excellent intelligence

movie of our brothers over the Atlantic.

Jay Casiano, Albany, NY, USA

By-the-way: NCIS stands for National Criminal Investigative Service. NCIS is a

team of federal law enforcement professionals dedicated to protecting the
people, family, and assets of the US Navy and the Marine Corps worldwide.

Jay Casiano, Albany, NY, USA

 The FBI does have a counter intelligence section and they work very closely with
the CIA and other intelligence agencies in the US like the NIA (Naval Intelligence
Agency) and DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency).

John Smith, Chicago, United States

Minus one.

Francisco Scaramanga, Secret Island, Carribean

To John C.Watson. Thanks for the info. Having lived and studied in Amherst, I'm
wondering how you can possess such a deep and correct knowledge of matters
military while in 'the valley', an area not exactly conducive, but rather hostile, to
that region of scholarship. Hats off to you.

Tom Roberts, Tokyo, Japan

In the United States, NCIS is the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. We do not
have an agency called the National Criminal Investigative Service, because we
have many federal agencies that investigate crimes nationally. Some of these are
the FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency, ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms), U. S. Postal Inspectors, and U. S. Marshal's Service. The Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) has the Criminal Investigation Division to investigate tax
fraud. Now included in the Department of Homeland Security (which was created
in 2003) are these federal investigative agencies: CBP (U. S. Customs and
Border Protection), ICE (U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), U. S.
Coast Guard, and U. S. Secret Service. The Transportation Security
Administration also is within DHS. Finally, all federal agencies have Offices of
Inspectors General (OIG) who have special agents with law enforcement
responsibility and authority to investigate fraud, waste, and abuse within and
against each agency. Law enforcement in the United States is very fragmented.
There are many federal law enforcement agencies, each state has various
investigative agencies (the number depends on the individual states), and of
course every town and city has local police agencies. Every county in the U. S.
has a sheriff's department to investigate crimes in the counties that are outside
the jurisdiction of local police departments. Even many public school districts now
have their own independent police departments and most colleges and
universities of any size now have their own police departments. Altogether there
are approximately 850,000 full-time law enforcement officers in the United
States.

J. R. Price, Arlington, Texas

No wonder conspiracy theories etc abound - I simply went to the source

www.mi5.gov.uk and there all is explained. I never really understood the
 expression 'get a life' but now browsing the responces to this query, it has
relevance.

James, Newcastle upon Tyne UK

The binary distinction between MI5 and MI6 presented in some of the answers
above is incorrect. As displayed on the MI6>FAQs and on the MI5 website>about
us>myths sections, "SIS (MI6) collects secret intelligence overseas on behalf of
the British Government. MI5, the Security Service, is the UK's security
intelligence agency responsible for protecting the UK, its interests and citizens
against major threats to national security." However, these 2 distinct roles entail
actual operational overlap and thus "the scope of national security extends
beyond the British Isles and may involve the protection of British interests
worldwide, e.g. diplomatic premises and staff, British companies and investments
and British citizens living or travelling abroad. Security threats to British interests
anywhere in the world fall within the scope of our functions as set out in the
Security Service Act 1989. In dealing with security threats overseas we co-
operate closely with the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), who are responsible for gathering
intelligence overseas, and with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office." Simples.

Vinesh Patel, London, England

For John in London: The FBI is in fact partly an inteligence service. FBI has
jurisdiction within the continental US while CIA has responsibilities over seas,
NSA has ability now to monitor communications both domestically and over seas.
Like our UK Counter Parts they are unsung heroes, who allow us to keep our
freedom!!

Jack Zalenski, Beverly, New Jersey, USA

Thanks for the info, guys.

Manaal Basit, Budgam, India

dosent matter casue the usa is the best! go seal teams

RYAN, rakin cille USA

"Question" I need to ask is: does anyone know if MI9 existing after WW2 in to the
50s & possibly 60s?My Canadian father was in R.C.A.F. Intelligence Services
back then,served and married my mother in England in fifties,also served in
France in fifties, I was told even though he was Canadian, he also worked for the
British, is it possible that he could have worked for M19 after the War 2, I am
trying to validate information I have been learning on him.Some older close
associates have mentioned to me M19..He was recently killed while in Turks &
 Caicos Islands shot in isolated location, no weapon found or bullet or casing etc.
Because of his past with the military, I am trying to connect some dots prior to
and around the time of his death, local police kind, and still investigating, but not
all are well educated,the Islands were bankrupt and political corruption caused
The Queen to provide a temporary Governor till next elections: recently Britain
has supplied T&C with additional police experts, investigations etc. I also read
recently that there is an Interpol office located on the Islands as well. I am no
expert in any of these matters..Just curious to see if there is any possible chance
my father could have ever been linked with Britain's MI9, since his death people
I'm connecting with are telling me he previously served with MI9: he was very
brilliant and a serious intellectual.Advice would be appreciated.Thanking you for
your assistance.

ann, toronto canada

Mmm some interesting answers!! You are right that MI originally stood for Military
Intelligence (followed by Department 1, 2, 3 etc). The current Security Service
and Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) are still sometimes referred to as MI5 and
MI6 respectively, though technically they are no longer 'military' being staffed by
civil servants. You can find out more about the MI5/MI6 designations on their
websites www.MI5.gov.uk etc - it is not a secret!

GJB, Bishops Stortford UK

Mi5 is about affairs that happen on British soil. Mi5 is often referred to as security
service or ss. On the other hand Mi6 deals with current affairs overseas and are
often referred to as secret intelligence service or sis kind of like the FBI but the
sis does not shed names or appearance of their agents.

Euan McMurtrie, Glasgow Scotland

Having spent 21 years finding out about Lockerbie, I have some familiarity with
various US, UK and Iranian and other agencies. The CIA and MI5 cooperate
closely, though MI5 tries to prevent some of the FBI's more absurd plot ideas,
like attributing the destruction of Pan Am 103 to the Irish. MI6 looks down on the
CIA as the johnny-come-lately with too much firepower, the child of SOE and
OSS. The Agency will do wet jobs - it helped blow up Pan Am 103 - while the SIS
does not kill people, and there is a rule to that effect. The CIA London officer
attends the first half of the JSC meeting every week in London, and the feeling
that the UK should always take its lead from the US often grates to the British
horribly. GCHQ is the child of BP is still respected by the NSA. The NSC is
despised by all, as simply being the porthole by which the White House tells the
world how it wishes to see things. Everyone detests the DIA, and BAFTA are
regarded as fools and buffoons. The US security estate is far bigger than the UK
one, but slow, bureaucratic and always fighting the last war but one. No-one liked
 the French, DST and DGSE, the Russians are still feared and the Germans
uncooperative.

Charles Norrie, London, UK

There are some very good answers here. However, I do believe that the most
important department in British security has been overlooked. Not surprisingly it
is only natural that, as all CI5 operations are very secretive and carried out by
professionals, they are kept extremely quiet. George Cowley - Head of CI5

George Cowley, London, UK

During WWII MI-9 was the organisation responsible for establishing networks
behind enemy lines that assisted POW's and downed airmen in escaping or
evading capture.

Stuart Kohn, Maplewood, NJ US

Originally all MI, Military Intelligence was in one building. Each department had
it's own 'Room'. The numbers following the letters MI refereed to room or door
number.

Paladin, Moncton Canada

There seems to be so many acronyms for NCIS so I googled it NCIS Naval

Criminal Investigative Service NCIS National Coroners Information System
(Australia) NCIS Nebraska Career Information System NCIS National Crime
Intelligence Service NCIS National Coalition of Independent Scholars NCIS
National Crop Insurance Service (gathers crop-hail statistics) NCIS Nuclear
Criticality Information System NCIS NATO Common Interoperability Standards
NCIS Navy Cost Information System NCIS New Century Infusion Solutions
(Brea, CA) NCIS Naval Criminal Intelligence Command NCIS NATO Common
Interface Standard NCIS No Change in Status NCIS National Coordinated
Industry Survey (Australia) NCIS National Crime Investigation Squad

jamo, Castletown Isle of Man

I think there all different

Tee, Nashville TN USA

Adding to Stu Kohan's answer, MI9 was also called "Escape and Evade," and the
American MIS-X was modeled after the British MI9.

Bill Streifer, Inwood, NY USA

 MI5 specializes in identifying and neutralizing domestic threats or security threats
emanating from within UK while MI6 is tasked with combing and neutralizing
external threats.

Wycliffe, Eldoret Kenya

MI1: Codes and cyphers. Later merged with other code-breaking agencies and
became Government Code and Cypher School (now known as Government
Communications Headquarters). MI2: Information on Middle and Far East,
Scandinavia, USA, USSR, Central and South America. MI3: Information on
Eastern Europe and the Baltic Provinces (plus USSR, Eastern Europe and
Scandinavia after Summer 1941). MI4: Geographical section maps (transferred
to Military Operations in April 1940). MI5: Liaison with Security Service, following
the transfer of Security Service to the Home Office in the 1920s. MI6: Liaison
with Secret Intelligence Service and Foreign Office. MI7: Press and propaganda
(transferred to Ministry of Information in May 1940). MI8: Signals interception and
communications security. MI9: Escaped British PoW debriefing, escape and
evasion (also: enemy PoW interrogation until 1941). MI10: Technical Intelligence
worldwide. MI11: Military Security. MI12: Liaison with censorship organisations in
Ministry of Information, military censorship. MI13: Not used (except in fiction).
MI14: Germany and German-occupied territories (aerial photography until Spring
1943). MI15: Aerial photography. In the Spring of 1943, aerial photography
moved to the Air Ministry and MI15 became air defence intelligence. MI16:
Scientific Intelligence (formed 1945). MI17: Secretariat for Director of Military
Intelligence from April 1943. MI18: Used only in fiction. MI19: Enemy PoW
interrogation (formed from MI9 in December 1941).

Chris Meadow, Middleton, US

M15 is a secret Intelligent unit primarily deals with internal affairs but terrorists
unusually and The Great MI6 deals with foreign affairs which has to do with the
UK or not. M07 become MI7 in 1916 after the War.Which is responsible for
information and press or propaganda. MI8 is the Radio Security Service
(RSS).MI4 now the JARIC agency. In short you can be made to believe that MI1-
M14 still exist after the second world war.

Kwame Akonnor, Sakyikrom-Nsawam, Ghana

NCIS stands for NAVAL Criminal Intelligence Service. The word is not "national."

Carole Parkinson, Portland United States

Firstly, NCIS does not refer to US Naval version it's referred to the UK National
Criminal Investigative Service now known as SOCA (Serious Organized Crime
Agency) this agency took over most of the MI5 responsibilities leaving matter of
counter-intelligence and foreign diplomatic services up to MI6 which really no
 longer exist as an agency only unto itself. It may have a website etc, but any MI
(Military Intelligence) office is overseen by the Foreign Secretary. Years ago the
"operatives" used in Clandestine Services were reassigned and renamed under
Her Majesty's Customs and Excise via Home Office. MI5 Secret Service is
domestic only. Handles British territories with some travel. Most of the foreign
embassies in the world have Diplomatic Protection Officers in them. Ian
Flemming's Bond is loosely based on the association of these two agencies but
they are not related and quite honestly MI5 is nothing more than an Interpol type
office conducting mostly anti-terrorism operations where as SOCA is chiefly
responsible for national investigations and policing. It can be argued because
there is not substantial information available to the general public as to what or
how each foreign service office or officer are assigned or their duties. As to what
has happened to the other MI's they have been re-titled UKSF and INTCORP or
ICA Intelligence Corp Association.

P. M. Skellen, Herefordshire United Kingdom

All I can say is Thank God for the United Kingdom, the english language the
principals of law and the rich heritage we have recieved from them. God bless all
of our english speaking cousins around the world. Thank you.

Robin L. Garces, Newberg Oregon, USA

Pretty much MI5 and MI6 have absolved all the other sections MI's activities. MI5
works closely with the Police as well in the UK. Now my next question is... What
does MI6 do in this peace time activities. I have heard what the CIA is doing?
MI6 is very secretive and am pretty sure that their actions are passive rather than
active. Is there a secret hatchet unit that's unsanctioned by the British
Government known as Section 20? Basically under the CIA, this is called Blake
Ops. If there is one, then Sec 20 is the creme de la creme of international law
enforcement.

Dominic W S Chan, Shah Alam Malaysia

I believe that the closest to MI5 is the US Department of Homeland Security

Harold Basa,

Contrary to John London's post, the FBI, like the CIA, is a member of the US
Intelligence Community.

Carson, Virginia US

My dad worked for MI8 at one point just after the war. It involved sitting in the
back of a army waggon listening to Russian morse and transcribing it. He had no
 Russian language translation skills, that duty belonged to someone else. Not the
most glamorous of jobs, but at least it sounded good....

Nik, Leigh UK

In response to what the American NCIS stands for, it's not NATIONAL, but Naval
Criminal Investigative Service. I believe the UK one is National. And I'm also
watching MI-5, know in the UK as Spooks. I wanted to get a handle on the
different intelligence agencies. To my understanding, MI-5 deals with domestic
intelligence, but not equivalent to our FBI because of their clandestine nature (I
would say equivalent to the NSA). And MI-6 is international intelligence, like the
CIA. So can anyone elaborate more on GCHQ? Or what their American
equivalent would be if there is one?

Ike, San Diego, California USA

A big thank you for your post. Want more.

forum profiles, NY USA

During the second world war, GCHQ was the organization that handled the
decryption of German encrypted radio communications based on sophisticated
mathematical techniques supplied by great minds such as Alan Turing and an
Enigma machine supplied by a Polish soldier who escaped to England. The
letters stood, I think, for Government Communication Headquarters. It probably
still deals with codes and cyphers, something like our NSA. GCHQ has a famous
site at Cheltenham, I think.

Thomas, Stoneham, US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate_of_Military_Intelligence Should you be

allowed to ask a question on Notes and Queries if it has its own Wikipedia page?

Andy Buch, Brighton,

Romnia[modificare | modificare surs]
Departamentul Securitii Statului (DSS) din 11 iunie 1956 pn n 22 decembrie 1989
Serviciul Romn de Informaii (SRI)
Serviciul de Informaii Externe (SIE)
Serviciul de Protecie i Paz (SPP)
Serviciul de Telecomunicaii Speciale (STS)
Direcia General de Informaii a Aprrii (DGIA)
Direcia de Informaii Militare (DIM - J2)
Direcia Contrainformaii i Securitate Militar (DCISM )
Direcia General de Informaii i Protecie Intern (DGIPI) (Ministerul Afacerilor Interne)
Directia de Operatiuni Speciale (DOS)