* 2000 – The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.

Recognizing that any surface approach will be seen by Hummel's men, FBI Director James Womack ( John Spencer ) is forced to turn to federal prisoner John Mason ( Sean Connery ), a former MI6 Agent and SAS Captain who has been illegally detained for decades by Womack and his predecessors.

ASIS is equivalent to the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) or the United States ' Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).

After recovering from tetrodotoxin poisoning inflicted by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb ( see From Russia, with Love ) MI6 agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, on a " rest cure " to Jamaica.

Whilst there his task is a simple assignment to investigate the disappearance of Commander John Strangways, the head of MI6 Station J in Kingston, Jamaica, and his secretary.

At an officers conference in Berlin, December 1941, Canaris is quoted as saying " Abwehr has nothing to do with persecution of Jews .... no concern of ours, we hold ourselves aloof from it " ( MI6 Sub-section Vf files NA HW 1 / 327 ).

Beginning with From Russia with Love in 1963, Llewelyn appeared as Q, the quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab ( also known as Q branch ), in almost every Bond film until his death ( 17 ), only missing appearances in Live and Let Die in 1973, and Never Say Never Again, the latter of which is not part of the official James Bond film series.

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, the physical location of Room 101 ( and the Ministry of Love ) is given as the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross.

An offer of the Spektor is subsequently received by MI6 in London, ostensibly from Romanova, and contains the condition that Bond collects her and the machine in Istanbul.

The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5 ), is the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS or MI6 ) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) and Defence Intelligence ( DI ).

The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), commonly known as MI6, ( Military Intelligence, Section 6 ) is the agency which supplies Her Majesty's Government with foreign intelligence.

It is frequently referred to by the name MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6 ), a name used as a flag of convenience during the Second World War when it was known by many names.

When the First World War started, the two sections underwent administrative changes so that the foreign section became the Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 6 ( MI6 ), the name by which it is frequently known in popular culture today.

* James Bond, a fictional character from the popular book, movie and video game franchise named 007 who is said to work for MI6

* George Smiley, a fictional character from the popular book of John Le Carré, movie franchise who is said to work for MI6

The story centres on the investigation by MI6 operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation.

He is also embroiled in international espionage when he finds himself in possession of secret documents desperately desired by both the KGB and MI6.

The head of MI6, recently back from visiting Washington, is quoted as expressing the view that " Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.

In his espionage novels, author John Le Carré placed the headquarters of the fictionalised British intelligence service based on MI6 in buildings on Shaftesbury Avenue and Cambridge Circus ; it is from this that Le Carré's nickname for MI6, " The Circus ", derives.

She is secretary to M, who is Bond's boss and head of the British Secret Service ( MI6 ).

The story centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of a fellow MI6 operative, Commander John Strangways and his secretary, Mary Trueblood.

This story was originated by Oleg Penkovsky, a GRU agent who spied for MI6.

Defended by Lord Hutchinson, Marks plead ' Not Guilty ', concocting a story that he was an agent for MI6 ( concealing the fact that his relation with MI6 ended in 1973 ) and the Mexican Secret Service that had set up an identity as a drug smuggler in order to close the net on James McCann ( wanted in Britain for his IRA activities ).

Carver media published the full story before MI6 received a full report, raising MI6's suspicions.

An Englishman Abroad is a 1983 BBC television drama film, based on the true story of a chance meeting of an actress, Coral Browne, with Guy Burgess ( Alan Bates ), a member of the Cambridge spy ring who worked for the Soviet Union whilst with MI6.

Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins the story with his own recruitment to MI6.

Based upon the success of his Fleming biography, The Life of Ian Fleming ( 1966 ), MI6 instruct Pearson to write 007's biography ; he is introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No. Most of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is Bond telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story and, notably, to Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel.

Walter had told the story of how the escape was organised by Committee of 100 activists to former MI6 officer H. Montgomery Hyde, an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association, who was writing a biography of Blake.

The story follows the former MI6 agent Jones.

As an added incentive, Tatiana will provide the British with a Spektor, a Russian decoding device much coveted by MI6.

Tommy was portrayed as a self-important strong male, whilst Tuppence was portrayed as a maudlin alcoholic who carried a hip flask and who was resentful of her husband's success ; she too was going to be signed-up by MI6 but who had then not been able to fulfil this ambition as she was pregnant with their first child.

Bond's examination of the hull of the Disco Volante was inspired by the ill-fated mission undertaken on 19 April 1956 by the ex-Royal Navy frogman " Buster " Crabb on behalf of MI6, as he examined the hull of the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze that had brought Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin on a diplomatic mission to Britain.

* Edward Fox as M, Bond's superior at MI6.

* Saskia Cohen Tanugi as Nicole, Bond's MI6 contact in France

In this sequence, his character was famously lifted from a wheelchair and dropped to his death down a chimney stack by Bond ( Roger Moore ) after he had attempted to kill Bond by using a remote control link to Bond's MI6 helicopter.

* John Huston as M / McTarry – Head of MI6 who dies from an explosion caused by his own bombardment of Bond's estate.

After MI6 agent James Bond, 007 fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, orders Bond to enrol in a health clinic in London to get back into shape.

In 1962, Lee was cast in the role that The Illustrated who's who of the cinema thought would probably be his best remembered, playing the character of M, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 )— and the superior of James Bond — in the first Eon Productions film, Dr. No. A number of Bond scholars have noted that Lee's interpretation of the character was in line with the original literary representation ; Cork and Stutz observed that Lee was " very close to Fleming's version of the character ", whilst Rubin commented on the serious, efficient, no-nonsense authority figure.

In the film, Bond ( who at this point in the film is on the run from MI6 ), mysteriously receives a key to a door on the southeast end of Westminster Bridge, walks down a flight of stairs and finds himself inside the station where he encounters his superior, M, and they conduct a secret meeting.

Alex's first task is to kill his former MI6 superior, Mrs Jones.

In thanks, Fleming gave the MI6 Armourer the name Major Boothroyd in Dr. No and M introduces him to Bond as " the greatest small-arms expert in the world ".

At Trieste a fellow MI6 agent, " Captain Nash ", arrives on the train and Bond presumes he has been sent by M as added protection for the rest of the trip.

Miss Moneypenny is the confidential clerk and private secretary to M, the head of MI6.

M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series ; the character is the Head of Secret Intelligence Service — also known as MI6.

Another possibility for the model of M was William Melville, an Irishman who became head of the Secret Service Bureau, the forerunner to both MI5 and MI6: Melville was referred to within government circles as M. Melville recruited Sidney Reilly into government service and foiled an assassination plot against Queen Victoria on her 1887 Golden Jubilee.

In Gardner's final novel, COLD, M is kidnapped and rescued by Bond and finishes the book by retiring from MI6.

The film also saw M refer to himself as head of MI7 ; Lee had originally said MI6, but was overdubbed with the name MI7 prior to the film's release.

* In Issue # 6, Volume 1 of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mycroft Holmes becomes the leader of British intelligence and uses the code-name " M " – a nod to the fictional head of MI6 in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

The station is supposedly used as a neutral ground for MI6 illegals ( officially nonexistent agents ) to be given missions by M. A visible track-side line diagram places the station north / east of Hyde Park Corner, which suggests that it is actually Down Street, but for the fact that the real station is some away from the real Vauxhall Cross, and trains still run through Down Street.

* Robert Brown as M: The head of MI6.

At the start of Rogue Agent, a recording by M ( head of MI6 ) reveals that: " Three years ago, while on assignment, the agent was severely wounded in an encounter with Dr. No, and subsequently lost the use of his right eye.

Several characters are available to choose from, including an MI6 agent, M, Robinson, and even Moneypenny.

Four draft pages of the manuscript were discovered in 2005, in which we learn that the Double-O Section has been closed down and James Bond defies M on a matter of principle, resigning from MI6 to pursue his mission in South Africa alone.

Sir James Bond 007, a legendary British spy who retired from the secret service 50 years previously, is visited by the head of British MI6, M, CIA representative Ransome, KGB representative Smernov, and Deuxième Bureau representative Le Grand.