Security Intelligence Middle East

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 570 words | Copyright

Security Intelligence Middle East (SIME), British intelligence organization formed in December 1939. It was responsible for security intelligence throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East, including Syria and Persia. Run jointly by MI5 and MI6, it described itself as the MI5 of the Middle East and acted through Field Security sections and MI6 Special Counter-Intelligence units. Among its more successful operations were rounding up members of the Kondor mission and feeding misleading information to the Axis through a double agent, Renato Levy, codenamed CHEESE.

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