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Secret Intelligence Service Failure

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The 'Secret Intelligence Service ' was derived by the 'Secret Service Bureau ' which was founded in 1909. The bureau was a joint initiative by the Admiralty (authority responsible for the command of the Royal Navy in the UK until 1964) and the War Office (department of the British Government responsible of the Army between the 1700 's - 1964). MI6 was initially founded to oversee activities being conducted by the Imperial German Government at the time.

MI6 didn 't play a very big role throughout 'World War 1 ' because it could not establish a solid network over German soil and due to this, most of the information was being supplied by the military.

After the 'Great War ' many of the country 's resources had been depleted, however MI6 created a close relationship with the diplomatic service (a service that provided authorized personnel a diplomatic immunity so that they were allowed safe passage to other countries). This helped with building networks in foreign countries.

With this, the Secret Intelligence Service began focusing on 'Communism ', in particular, 'Russian Bolshevism '. A plan was made to overthrow the Bolshevik Government, and everything was in check for who would lead after that, however all of a sudden, many Russian politicians were being murdered and MI6 took the blame, so the operation ended up as a Failure.

During the inter-war period, many other institutes were created thanks to the SIS. These included, Section N (in charge of intercepting

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