| “ | Alan Blunt I am Chief Executive of the Special Operations Division of MI6. And your uncle was, for want of a better word, a spy Alex Rider: You mean... Like James Bond Alan Blunt: Similar, although we don't go in for numbers. Double 0 and all the rest of it |
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—Alan Blunt explaining MI6 to Alex Rider |
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Military Intelligence Six (MI6) is the British intelligence service that employed Alex Rider into Special Ops in the novel Stormbreaker.
About
A UK governmental agency responsible for dealing with matters of internal security and counter-intelligence overseas. Formed in 1912, the agency was officially named the Secret Intelligence Service in 1964, but the name MI6 remains in popular use. The headquarters of the SIS are in Vauxhall Cross, London.
Members
The Special Operations Division of the SIS, formerly headed by Alan Blunt, is in Liverpool Street, under cover of the Royal and General bank. Tulip Jones is the former Deputy Head, now Head.
The following is a list of people who worked for or with MI6 at any point in the Alex Rider novels:
For
Head Staff and Assistants
- Alan Blunt - Head (formerly, forcibly retired)
- William Dearly - Assistant to Alan Blunt
- Tulip Jones - Deputy Head (formerly), Head (current)
- Mary Makepeace - Mrs Jones' secretary
- John Crawley - Paperwork/Head of Personnel, Deputy to Mrs Jones
- Myles - Crawley's assistant
- Smithers - Gadgeteer (formerly)
- Miss Pickering - Assistant to Smithers
- Samantha Redwing - Chief Scientist
Field Agents
- Alex Rider (unwillingly)
- Ben Daniels
- John Rider (former, murdered by Ash)
- Ian Rider (KIA)
- Lloyd
- Winters
- Burns
- Davers
- Wilson
- Rigby
- Mortimer
- Singh (fate/status unknown)
- Burton
- John Crawley (rarely)
- Smithers (rarely)
- Anthony Sean Howel (aka Ash) - Former Agent (defected to SCORPIA, deceased)
Guards for MI6
- Ramirez - Agent, guards front entrance of Mrs Jones' block of flats
- Lloyd - Ramirez's partner
- Winters - assigned to guard Mrs Jones' front door