Sections
During the First World War, British secret services were divided into numbered sections named Military Intelligence, department number x, abbreviated to MIx, such as MI1 for information management.
| Name | Details |
|---|---|
| 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). |
| MI (JIS) | Axis planning staff. |
| MI L(R) | Russian Liaison. |
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