MI6
British intelligence agency
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| April 2021 | Financial year 2021-2022 showed combined British intelligence services spending of £3.44 billion, with £1.09 billion allocated to staff pay and agents, and £636 million for capital spending. |
| 2020 | Sir Richard Moore became the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), taking on the responsibility of overseeing intelligence gathering and acting as a secret diplomat. |
| July 2020 | Revelation emerged that intelligence officials from multiple repressive regimes had received training from senior MI6 and MI5 officials, sparking controversy regarding the training programme's ethical considerations. |
| 2019 | MI6 and MI5 hosted an 11-day International Intelligence Directors Course, which was attended by top intelligence officers from 26 countries, including representatives from several Middle Eastern, African, and Asian nations. |
| 2016 | Investigatory Powers Act passed, further defining and potentially expanding MI6's surveillance and intelligence gathering capabilities. |
| November 2016 | MI6, MI5, and GCHQ provide SAS with a list of 200 British jihadists to kill or capture before they can return to the UK, targeting senior ISIS members perceived as a direct threat. |
| April 2016 | MI6 teams with Special Reconnaissance Regiment members are deployed to Yemen to train Yemeni forces fighting AQAP and identify targets for drone strikes. |
| March 2016 | MI6 becomes involved in the Libyan Civil War, escorted by SAS to meet with Libyan officials to discuss weapons and training for Syrian Army and anti-ISIS militias. |
| February 2015 | MI6 contacted South African intelligence services to seek help in recruiting a potential North Korean nuclear programme asset, with the outcome remaining unknown after a year. |
| February 2013 | Channel Four News reported evidence of SIS spying on Gaddafi regime opponents and sharing information with the Libyan regime, based on a 2002 memorandum of understanding between SIS, MI5, and Gaddafi's external intelligence agency. |
| November 16 2011 | SIS warned the National Transitional Council in Benghazi about planned strikes, successfully preventing attacks according to Foreign Secretary William Hague. |
| July 12 2011 | MI6 intelligence officers, along with other agencies, track two British-Afghans in Herat, Afghanistan, who were attempting to learn bomb-making skills. SAS operators capture them, believed to be the first Britons captured alive in Afghanistan since 2001. |
| June 7 2011 | John Sawers received Romania's President Traian Băsescu and George-Cristian Malor, head of the Serviciul Roman de Informatii (SRI), at SIS headquarters. |
| May 2 2011 | MI6 learns about the US mission that killed Osama bin Laden only after it happened, with the MI6 chief calling his American counterpart for an explanation. |
| March 2011 | A covert MI6 operation in Libya involving E Squadron failed when six SAS members and two SIS officers were detained by rebel forces in Benghazi after landing without prior agreement with rebel leadership. |
| February 15 2011 | Exhibition 'A Year with MI6' opens at Mount Street Galleries in Mayfair, London, featuring paintings by James Hart Dyke showcasing artistic representations of SIS work. |
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