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词条 Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom)
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  1. History

  2. Sections

  3. Directors of Military Intelligence

  4. References

  5. Sources

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The Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) was a department of the British War Office.[1]

Over its lifetime the Directorate underwent a number of organisational changes, absorbing and shedding sections over time.

History

The first instance of an organisation which would later become the DMI was the Department of Topography & Statistics, formed by Major Thomas Best Jervis, late of the Bombay Engineer Corps, in 1854 in the early stages of the Crimean War.[2]

In 1873 the Intelligence Branch was created within the Quartermaster General's Department with an initial staff of seven officers.[3] Initially the Intelligence Branch was solely concerned with collecting intelligence, but under the leadership of Henry Brackenbury, a protege of influential Adjutant-General Lord Wolseley, it was increasingly concerned with planning. However despite these steps towards a nascent general staff the Intelligence Branch remained a purely advisory body, something that sharply limited its influence. The Branch was transferred to the Adjutant General's Department in 1888 and Brackenbury's title was changed to Director of Military Intelligence.

After Wolseley's appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in 1895 he made the Director of Military Intelligence directly responsible to him. At the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899 the Intelligence Branch had 13 officers. Prior to the war it produced a highly accurate summary of the Boer republics' military potential and was the only part of the War Office to escape criticism in the resulting Royal Commission. In the immediate aftermath of the Boer War the Intelligence Branch was enlarged and its head elevated to Director General of Mobilisation and Military Intelligence.

Following the Esher Report in 1904 the War Office was dramatically reorganized. The post of Commander-in-Chief was abolished and replaced by the Chief of the General Staff. Planning and intelligence would be the responsibility of the Directorate of Military Operations.

When the War Office was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1964, the DMI was absorbed into the Defence Intelligence Staff.[4]

Sections

During World War I, British secret services were divided into numbered sections named Military Intelligence, department number x, abbreviated to MIx, such as MI1 for information management.

The branch, department, section, and sub-section numbers varied through the life of the department, however examples include:

Name World War I[5] World War II[6]
MI1 Secretariat, including :
  • MI1b: Interception and cryptanalysis.
  • MI1c: The Foreign Section of the Secret Service Bureau.
Administration
MI2 Geographical information (Americas, Latin countries, Balkans, Ottoman Empire, Trans-Caucasus, Arabia, Africa less French and Spanish possessions) Information on Middle and Far East, Scandinavia, US, USSR, Central and South America.
MI3 Geographical Information (rest of European countries) Information on Eastern Europe and the Baltic Provinces (plus USSR and Scandinavia after summer 1941).
MI4 Topographical information and military maps Geographical section—maps (transferred to Military Operations in April 1940).
MI5 Counter-espionage and military policy in dealing with the civil population (the former Home Section of the Secret Service Bureau) Liaison with the Security Service (counterintelligence)
MI6 Legal and economic section dealing with the MI finance as well as economic intelligence and personnel records. Monitoring arms trafficking. Liaison with Secret Intelligence Service
MI7 Press censorship and propaganda Press and propaganda (transferred to Ministry of Information in May 1940).
MI8 Cable censorship Signals interception and communications security. Merged into MI6 in 1941.
MI9 Postal censorship Escaped British PoW debriefing, escape and evasion (also: enemy PoW interrogation until 1941).
MI10 Foreign Military Attaches Technical Intelligence worldwide
MI11 Military Security. Disbanded at the end of WWII.
MI12 Liaison with censorship organisations in Ministry of Information, military censorship.
MI13 (Not used)
MI14 Germany and German-occupied territories (aerial photography until spring 1943).
MI15 Aerial photography. In the spring of 1943, aerial photography moved to the Air Ministry and MI15 became air defence intelligence.
MI16 Scientific Intelligence (formed 1945).[7]
MI17 Secretariat for Director of Military Intelligence from April 1943.
MI18 (Not used)
MI19 Enemy prisoner of war interrogation (formed from MI9 in December 1941).
Others MIR: Information on Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, China, Japan, Siam and IndiaMI (JIS)}}: ″Axis planning staff″ related to Joint Intelligence Staff, a sub-group of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
MI L}}: Attaches.
MI L(R)}}: Russian Liaison.

Two MI section-names remain in common use, MI5 and MI6, in most part due to their use in spy fiction and the news media.

"MI5" is used as the short form name of the Security Service, is included in the agency's logo and web address. MI6 is included as an alias on the Secret Intelligence Service website, though the official abbreviation, SIS, is predominant.

While the monikers remain, the agencies are now responsible to different departments of state, MI5 to the Home Office, and MI6 the Foreign Office.

Directors of Military Intelligence

Directors of Military Intelligence have been:[8]

Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch
  • 1873–1878 Patrick Leonard MacDougall
  • 1878–1882 Archibald Alison
  • 1882–1886 Aylmer Cameron (Assistant Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch)
  • 1886–1888 Henry Brackenbury
Director of Military Intelligence
  • 1888–1891 Henry Brackenbury
  • 1891–1896 Edward Francis Chapman
  • 1896–1901 John Charles Ardagh
Director General of Mobilisation and Military Intelligence
  • 1901–1904 William Nicholson
Director of Military Operations
  • 1904–1906 James Grierson
  • 1906–1910 Spencer Ewart
  • 1910–1914 Henry Wilson
  • 1914–1915 Charles Callwell
Director of Military Intelligence
  • 1915–1916 Charles Callwell
  • 1916–1918 George Mark Watson Macdonogh
  • 1918–1922 William Thwaites
Director of Military Operations and Intelligence
  • 1922–1923 William Thwaites
  • 1923–1926 John Burnett-Stuart
  • 1926–1931 Ronald Charles
  • 1931–1934 William Henry Bartholomew
  • 1934–1936 John Greer Dill
  • 1936–1938 Robert Hadden Haining
  • 1938–1939 Henry Royds Pownall
Director of Military Intelligence
  • 1939–1940 Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt
  • 1940–1944 Francis Henry Norman Davidson
  • 1944–1945 John Alexander Sinclair
  • 1945–1946 Freddie de Guingand
  • 1946–1948 Gerald Templer
  • 1948–1949 Douglas Packard
  • 1949–1953 Arthur Shortt
  • 1953–1956 Valentine Boucher
  • 1956–1959 Cedric Rhys Price
  • 1959–1962 Richard Eyre Lloyd
  • 1962–1965 Marshall St John Oswald

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/History/HistoryOfTheMOD/ |title=History of the Ministry of Defence |publisher=Mod.uk |date= |accessdate=2009-06-19}}
2. ^The Puppet Masters, John Hughes-Wilson, Cassell, London, 2004
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Wade|first1=Stephen|title=Spies in the Empire: Victorian Military Intelligence|date=2007|publisher=Anthem Press|isbn=9780857287014|page=87|url=https://books.google.com/?id=-sk68pAvB14C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Intelligence+Branch%22+British+Army#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=28 May 2018}}
4. ^Dylan, p. 184
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sis.gov.uk/output/Page470.html |title=SIS Records — War Office Military Intelligence (MI) Sections in the First World War |publisher=Sis.gov.uk |date= |accessdate= |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820014944/http://www.sis.gov.uk:80/output/Page470.html |archivedate=26 August 2006 |df=dmy-all }}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sis.gov.uk/output/Page471.html |title=SIS Records — War Office Military Intelligence (MI)Sections in the Second World War |publisher=Sis.gov.uk |date= |accessdate=2009-06-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080826032948/http://www.sis.gov.uk/output/Page471.html |archivedate=26 August 2008 |df=dmy-all }}
7. ^{{cite book |title=Espionage, security, and intelligence in Britain, 1945–1970 |last=Aldrich |first=Richard James |page=66 |year=1998 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-4956-9 }}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army senior appointments |accessdate=7 November 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112744/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |archivedate=4 March 2016 |df=dmy }}

Sources

  • {{cite book|last=Dylan|first=Huw |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sSTSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=Kenneth+Strong+Joint+Intelligence+Bureau#v=onepage&q=Kenneth%20Strong%20Joint%20Intelligence%20Bureau&f=false|title=Defence Intelligence and the Cold War: Britain's Joint Intelligence Bureau 1945–1964|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0199657025}}
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