#MI6

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George Blake George Blake was a British MI6 officer and KGB double agent, recruited during Korean War captivity, who betrayed approximately 40 agents and revealed Operation Gold before construction began, escaped a 42-year sentence from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966, and died in Moscow in December 2020 at age 98.
Kim Philby Kim Philby was the most damaging member of the Cambridge Five, a KGB agent who penetrated MI6 to its anti-Soviet section chief and CIA liaison in Washington, directly causing the death or capture of hundreds of Western agents and precipitating James Angleton's decade-long mole hunt paranoia before defecting to Moscow in January 1963.
Robert Maxwell Robert Maxwell was a British publishing magnate, Labour MP, and alleged simultaneous asset of Mossad, British, and Soviet intelligence whose empire collapsed after he looted the Mirror Group pension funds, who was alleged to be the international distributor of backdoored PROMIS software, and who died at sea off the Canary Islands in 1991 amid contested allegations of foul play.

MI6 MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service, SIS) is the United Kingdom's foreign intelligence service, whose operations documented in this vault include the joint 1953 CIA-MI6 coup in Iran, Cold War coordination with the CIA on Afghanistan and elsewhere, the Robert Maxwell-Mossad intelligence network, and the Arms-to-Iraq affair.

Operation Gold Operation Gold was a 1955-1956 CIA-MI6 joint operation that tunneled beneath the Berlin sector boundary to tap Soviet military cables, producing eleven months of signals intelligence before a staged Soviet discovery - the tunnel having been betrayed before construction by MI6 officer and KGB agent George Blake.

London London is the capital of the United Kingdom and a recurring location throughout this vault: the headquarters of MI6 and GCHQ oversight, the site of BCCI's global headquarters in the 1980s, the base of operation for Robert Maxwell's media and intelligence empire, and the location of key arms-to-Iraq commercial networks.
United Kingdom The United Kingdom is a Five Eyes intelligence partner of the United States whose security services (MI5, MI6, GCHQ) are extensively cross-referenced in this vault; the UK hosted BCCI's global headquarters, was the base of Robert Maxwell's operations, was implicated in the Arms-to-Iraq affair, and was the home of the Paedophile Information Exchange.