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Definition of Secret intelligence service
1. Noun. The government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas.
Generic synonyms: International Intelligence Agency
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secret Intelligence Service
Literary usage of Secret intelligence service
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spies and Secret Service: The Story of Espionage, Its Main Systems and Chief by Hamil Grant (1915)
"Prussia was then paying some £52000 a year for the secret-intelligence service,
and Bismarck was not slow to perceive that Stieber in his own wdy was making ..."
2. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"The KGB (or Committee for State Security) maintains internal security in the USSR
and, as a secret intelligence service, collects intelligence and conducts ..."
3. Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918: The Great War from the by Erich Ludendorff (1919)
"The other great branch of Lieutenant-Colonel Nico- lai's work consisted of the
secret intelligence service, prevention of spying, supervision of post, ..."
4. The Secret War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II edited by George C. Chalou (1995)
"One was the sabotage branch of SIS, the secret intelligence service, one was the
research branch of War Office intelligence, and one was the propaganda ..."
5. Thirty Secret Years by Robin Denniston (2007)
"... Foreign Office with no family rights, and the poor relation of SIS (Secret
Intelligence Service) whose peacetime activities left little cash to spare'. ..."
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