The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the British intelligence agency which supplies the British Government with foreign intelligence. It operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) alongside the internal Security Service (MI5), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI).
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Secrets Of Her Majesty’s Secret Service
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| MI6 | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1909 (1909) |
| Preceding Agency | Secret Service Bureau |
| Type | Foreign intelligence |
| Jurisdiction | Her Majesty’s Government |
| Headquarters | SIS Building, London, UK 51°29′16″N0°07′29″W / 51.48778°N 0.12472°W / 51.48778; -0.12472 |
| Motto | Semper Occultus (“Always Secret”) |
| Employees | 3,200 (fy 2012–13)[1] |
| Annual budget | Single Intelligence Account (£2.3 billion in 2010–2011 financial year)[2] |
| Minister responsible | Rt HonPhilip Hammond, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs |
| Agency executive | Alex… |
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