History
Around the turn of the century, the first movements towards collecting military intelligence for the army were looked at, but it was viewed as not playing by the rules, and a bit underhand. By the 1900's, intelligence gathering had become greater understood, to the point where a counter-intelligence organisation was formed - MI5 by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DoMI) under Captain (later Major-General) Vernon Kell. Overseas intelligence gathering began in 1912 by MI6 under Commander (later Captain) Mansfield Smith-Cumming.
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