PLEDGE OF HONOR: A Mark Cole Thriller - Plot & Excerpts
Nearly a hundred years old, it had been described in the 1930s as ‘the finest office building in the British Empire’, and Cole could see why. There were three major intelligence services in the UK. MI6, more properly known as the Secret Intelligence Service, performed the same function of foreign intelligence gathering as the American CIA, and was housed in the familiar stepped ziggurat building at Vauxhall Cross on the other side of the River Thames. Government Communications Headquarters worked closely with America’s National Security Agency; responsible for electronic and signals intelligence, it occupied ‘The Doughnut’, an iconic donut-shaped building in the suburbs of Cheltenham, a hundred miles from London. The Security Service – commonly known as MI5, due to its World War I designation as the Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 5 – dealt with internal security, including counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, and the protection of British parliamentary democracy and economic interests.
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