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The '''Middle East and Africa Controllerate''' was former section of the [[Secret Intelligence Service], better known as MI6. It was created during a 1966 reorganisation, in which the former Middle East directorate D/P2, was split between a Controller , Middle East (C/ME) and a Controller , Africa (C/AF).<ref>Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.270.</ref> This division was reversed in the mid-1990s, when the controllerate was merged into the [[MI6 Middle East and Africa Controllerate|Middle East and Africa Controllerate]].<ref>MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.777.</ref>
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The '''Middle East Controllerate''' was a former section of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]], better known as MI6. It was created during a 1966 reorganisation, in which the former Middle East directorate [[MI6 Middle East Directorate DP2|D/P2]], was split between a Controller , Middle East (C/ME) and a Controller , Africa (C/AF).<ref>Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.270.</ref> This division was reversed in the mid-1990s, when the controllerate was merged into the [[MI6 Middle East and Africa Controllerate|Middle East and Africa Controllerate]].<ref>MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.777.</ref>
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==People==
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===Controller, Middle East (C/ME) (Post 1966)===
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*[[Michael Oatley]]<ref>''MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service'', by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.795.</ref>
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*[[David Spedding]] - c. 1991.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1309010/Sir-David-Spedding.html Obituaries - Sir David Spedding], ''The Telegraph'', 14 June 2001.</ref>
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*[[Geoffrey Tantum]] -  sometime before 1999.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/GWeekly/Story/0,,297048,00.html Rogue agent accused of going public on MI6 names], guardian.co.uk, 19 May 1999.</ref>
  
 
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==Notes==

Latest revision as of 14:18, 26 January 2013

The Middle East Controllerate was a former section of the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6. It was created during a 1966 reorganisation, in which the former Middle East directorate D/P2, was split between a Controller , Middle East (C/ME) and a Controller , Africa (C/AF).[1] This division was reversed in the mid-1990s, when the controllerate was merged into the Middle East and Africa Controllerate.[2]

People

Controller, Middle East (C/ME) (Post 1966)

Notes

  1. Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.270.
  2. MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.777.
  3. MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril, Touchstone, 2002, p.795.
  4. Obituaries - Sir David Spedding, The Telegraph, 14 June 2001.
  5. Rogue agent accused of going public on MI6 names, guardian.co.uk, 19 May 1999.