MI6 Middle East Controllerate
1966-1990s
The Middle East Controllerate was a former component 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 1, p.270). This division was reversed in the mid-1990s, with the created of a merged Middle East and Africa Controllerate (ref 2, p.777).
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