Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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Yard or New Scotland Yard) has several intelligence-oriented units

in the Special Operations Directorate of the Criminal Investigation

Division:

• SO10, Covert Operations, provides criminal intelligence support
  through three teams: the Intelligence Evidence Unit, which uses
  video and still photography to gather evidence against target crimi-
  nals; the Facial Identification Unit, which exploits technology to
  identify suspects; and the Telephone Subscribers Unit, which liaises
  with landline and cell phone providers


• SO11, Criminal Intelligence, collects, collates, and analyzes data
  about target criminals through four units: the Specialist Intelligence
  Section, which maintains the database; the Financial Intelligence
  Unit, which coordinates financial investigations and is the desig-
  nated recipient of information provided under money-laundering
  legislation; the Strategic Analysis Unit, which evaluates crime, de-
  velops patterns, and researches profiling; and the Prison Liaison
  Section, which maintains a link with the Prison Service


• SO13, which was established as the Bomb Squad following a series
  of anarchist bombings in London in 1970 by the Angry Brigade,
  and in March 1976 was renamed the Anti-Terrorist Branch, ex-
  panded to cope with ProvisionalIrish Republican Armyatrocities
  in the capital

MI1.The War Office abbreviation for the Directorate of Military Intel-
ligence. The subsections of the Intelligence Branch were:

• MI1(b), a cryptanalytical organization developed during World War
  I, located at Cork Street, Mayfair, and staffed byIntelligence Corps
  personnel; later responsible for censorship, publicity, and propa-
  ganda policy


• MI1(c), the original War Office military intelligence designation for
  theSecret Intelligence Service, referred to in official handbooks as
  ‘‘special duties’’


• MI1(d), the clerical division responsible for the distribution of pa-
  pers and the allocation of travel grants


• MI1(e), a cipher bureau based at Le Touquet during World War I for
  the study of German codes; later responsible for artillery, small
  arms, explosives, and mechanization intelligence