Tom Griffin on intelligence history

Tom Griffin on intelligence history

MI6 Station Berlin

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Tom Griffin
Aug 24, 2023
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The first Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) station in Berlin was established by Henry Landau, shortly after the end of the  First World War.1 Landau's 1934 memoir, All's Fair, risked exposing his successor Frank Foley, who nevertheless remained in post until the outbreak of the Second World War.2

After the War, MI6 was represented in the offices of British Control Commission for Germany on Fehrbelliner-Platz, before establishing a station in a building adjoining the Olympiastadion in 1946.3

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