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COMBINED BUREAU MIDDLE EAST (CBME). TheGCHQ
cover name for its organization in the Middle East during World War
II, based at the King Farouk Museum in Heliopolis, Egypt. Opened
in May 1941 by Colonel Freddie Jacob ofBletchley Park’s Army
Section, CBME was linked by radio toWhaddon Hall.
COMBINED INTELLIGENCE CENTRE IRAQ (CICI).During
World War II British intelligence agencies operating in Iraq, hitherto
considered theRoyal Air Force’s exclusive territory, created a
unified organization, the CICI, commanded by Colonel Dawson-
Sheppard.
COMBINED INTELLIGENCE FAR EAST (CIFE). Created in
1935 in Hong Kong under Captain Bill Wiley, CIFE provided an um-
brella forMI5andSecret Intelligence Servicepersonnel in the Far
East. CIFE was moved to Kandy, Ceylon, in 1942 and was headed
by a Japanese-speaking MI5 officer,Courtney Young. It was based
in Singapore after World War II.
COMBINED INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (CIS).A dedicated unit
based atDublin Castleand headed by Colonel Ormonde Winter, the
CIS operated against theIrish Republican Army(IRA). It was ef-
fectively destroyed on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1919, when
IRA gunmen shot 14 CIS officers, along with two members of the
Royal Irish Constabulary.
COMBINED RESEARCH AND PLANNING OFFICE (CRPO).
Cover name forSecret Intelligence Servicestations in the Middle
East to replace theInter-Services Liaison Departmentin 1947.
COMBINED SERVICES DETAILED INTERROGATION CEN-
TRE (CSDIC).With the military intelligence designationMI19,
CSDIC established facilities during World War II to question enemy
prisoners at Beaconsfield, Wilton Park, and Latimer. In the Middle
East CSDIC operated from September 1940 under MI(L) cover, at
Maadi, purpose-built on the edge of the desert south of Cairo, with
cells wired for sound by engineers flown out fromDollis Hill.
CSDIC in the Far East was based at the Red Fort, Delhi, where pris-