MI6 Secrets Revealed

A man leafs through a copy of The History of the Secret Intelligence Service at its launch at the Foreign Office in central London, September 21, 2010. The book's author, historian Keith Jeffery, was given access to Britain's MI6 archives up to 1949, the first time the inteligence service's files have ever been made available for research. Credit: Reuters/Andrew Winning

Secrets And Spies: Book Takes A Peek Inside Classified Files Of MI6: Official History Of Intelligence Service Is Published -- The Independent

Mansfield Cumming, the monocle-wearing founder of MI6, made total secrecy the essence of his organisation. He would, one assumes, have been horrified at the unveiling yesterday of the secrets he and his successors cherished for 40 years – from plots to undermine Bolshevism to the use of agents' semen as invisible ink.

The first and – if the famously publicity-shy managers of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) get their way – only official history of the world's oldest foreign espionage organisation was unveiled yesterday.

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