MI2
MI2, the British Military Intelligence Section 2, was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was originally set up to handle geographic information. Its subsections in 1914 included:[1]
- MI2a: the Americas (excluding Canada), Spain, Portugal, Italy, Liberia, Tangier, and the Balkans
- MI2b: Ottoman Empire, Trans-Caucasus, Arabia, Sinai, Abyssinia, North Africa excluding French and Spanish possessions, Egypt, and the Sudan
After the First World War, its role was changed to handle Russian and Scandinavian intelligence. These functions were absorbed into MI3 in 1941.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Robertson, A. (1987). British and American Approaches to Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 81. ISBN 978-1349084180.
- ↑ "The secret war: Britain's MI departments in World War II". Stephen J. Bedard. Archived from the original on 11 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- MI5 FAQ Archived 25 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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