BRITAIN'S SECRET SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 22685, 26 June 1937, Page 12

BRITAIN'S SECRET SERVICE

HAVING A BUSY TIME Britain’s Secret Service Department! —M.l.s.—is working overtime, coping! with the vast international espionage net work that has recently come into Within a guarded room at the War Office are secrets which only a handful i of people in the world are allowed to know. Agents in the pay of foreign Governments are being offered rich prizes foil secrets of Britain’s £1,500,(XX),000 rearmament drive. , , lt But M. 1.5., working closely with the Special Political Branch of Scotland Yard and Room 40 0.8., the Admiralty’s Intelligent Department, keeps our secrets really secret. _ Last year a curt item in the national estimates revealed that Secret Service expenditure had been increased from £IBO,OOO to £250,000. The expenditure is being increased still further. . ' Day and night 30 men work in the “ Black Chamber ” of M.l.s.—the Cryptographic Bureau where code messages picked up in various parts of the world are deciphered. Nearby is a “ picture gallery where photographs of known, or suspected spies are filed. ~ Close watch is kept on all aliens entering the country. Secret Service men are planted among rearmament workers; doubtful recruits, who wish to join. ’ the services are setutinised. , But the most valuable work is done by outside agents-.—known to nobody except a few high '.officials—who in all parte of the world are working to add to the store of secrets in this quiet Whitehall room.