• The Casuarina Tree short stories set in the 1920's Malaya by W. Somerset Maugham came out of travels he paid for by working as a British spy?
• Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Jew, was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
• Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, known informally as MI6?

Facts on topics related to MI6

Secret Intelligence Service

• Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, known informally as MI6?
• during World War II, Norwegians Erik Welle-Strand, Egil Reksten, Sverre Midtskau, Einar Johansen, Haakon Sørbye and Bjørn Rørholt operated illegal radio transmitters codenamed "Skylark" for the Secret Intelligence Service?
• following the revelation of the Secret Intelligence Service radio station Skylark B in Trondheim in September 1941, eleven of the group members were sent to German death camps?

MI5

• Arthur Owens, codenamed SNOW, was a vital double agent who supplied information to German intelligence under the direction of British MI5 during the early years of World War II?
• the BBC radio producer R.D. Smith, husband of Olivia Manning and model for a character in her Fortunes of War novels, was identified as a Soviet spy by MI5?