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Intelligence services of World War II

  • MI6On the 1st of October 1909, the Secret Service Bureau opened its doors in London as a joint initiative between the Admiralty and the War Office.
  • NKVDThe People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs emerged from the chaos of the Russian October Revolution in 1917. Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized state power…
  • MI5On the day after the declaration of the First World War, Home Secretary Reginald McKenna announced that no fewer than twenty-one spies had been arrested in…