In eight pages the organization's history and some of the controversies connected with British Military Intelligence are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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intended to protect the country and the people from possible threats. As the name implies, its mission is to gather secret information that may serve to illustrate a threat posed
to the country. But, like all governmental agencies there are often controversial conditions, concerning the involvement of the organization. In the following paper we present an examination of the history
of the British Military Intelligence and then present some news coverage of controversial involvement on the part of the BMI or Secret Service Bureau of Britain. British Military
Intelligence History "In March 1909, the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, instructed the Committee of Imperial Defence to consider the dangers from German espionage to British naval ports. On 1 October,
following the Committees recommendation, Captain Vernon Kell of the South Staffordshire Regiment and Captain Mansfield Cumming of the Royal Navy jointly established the Secret Service Bureau" (Anonymous A Brief History
of the Security Service: M15 briefhis.htm). Considering that the requirements of the organization were spread out and vast it was decided that the organization would divide the work, or the
focus. "Thereafter, K was responsible for counter-espionage within the British Isles while C, as Cumming came to be known, was responsible for gathering intelligence overseas" (Anonymous A Brief History of
the Security Service: M15 briefhis.htm). Today the divisions are M15 which involves domestic concerns and M16 which involves international concerns. Between the time the organization was created and WWI
broke out there were over 30 spies who were "identified by the Secret Service Bureau and arrested, thereby depriving the German Intelligence Service of its network. At the time, the
Bureau had a staff of only 10, including Kell himself" (Anonymous A Brief History of the Security Service: M15 briefhis.htm). After this success, however, the Bureau was quickly established as