Security Intelligence Far East

Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE) was a British intelligence organization created in 1946 as a Far East variant of SIME, as part of its formation it absorbed its forerunner an organisation known as Combined Intelligence Far East (CIFE) which had been based in Ceylon serving British military commanders during the Second World War. CIFE had moved to India and then Ceylon after the Japanese overran Hong Kong and Singapore[1]. It was based in British-controlled Singapore and established by Colonel Cyril Egerton Dixon, a career MI5 officer with a great deal of war time counter intelligence experience in Britain and India[2][3][4][5]. SIFE (like SIME) was also a MI5 controlled organisation, with military, MI6 and colonial police participation[6][7]. SIFE had an outstation with a resident Defence Liaison Officer (DLO) based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya[8][9]. There are records of seven SIFE heads after Colonel Dixon[10][11]:

SIFE was disbanded in 1962, as British military commitments in Singapore and Malaysia reduced[13] and the birth of an independent Malaysia approached, which Singapore was initially part of.

References

  1. ↑ West, Nigel (2014). Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780810878976. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Jakobs. "RSLO Cambridge - Cyril Egerton Dixon". Josef Jakobs - 1898-1941. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Aldrich, Richard J. (2000). Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 370. ISBN 9780521641869. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  4. ↑ West, Nigel (2014). Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 534. ISBN 9780810878976. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Shaw, Alexander Nicholas (15 February 2017). "MI5 and the Cold War in South-East Asia: examining the performance of Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE), 1946–1963". Intelligence and National Security: 1–20. ISSN 0268-4527. doi:10.1080/02684527.2017.1289695. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  6. ↑ The National Archives, UK. "Organisation and functions of Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE).". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The Discovery Service. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Walton, Calder (2014). Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence in the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire. The Overlook Press. ISBN 9781468310436. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  8. ↑ The National Archives, UK. "Singapore: Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE); Defence Security Officer, Kuala Lumpur". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The Discovery Service. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  9. ↑ National Archives, Singapore. "FCO 141/17036: Singapore: Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE); Defence Security Officer, Kuala Lumpur - migrated archives". www.nas.gov.sg. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Security Intelligence Far East - Powerbase". powerbase.info. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  11. ↑ Shaw, Alexander Nicholas (15 February 2017). "MI5 and the Cold War in South-East Asia: examining the performance of Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE), 1946–1963". Intelligence and National Security: 3. ISSN 0268-4527. doi:10.1080/02684527.2017.1289695. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  12. ↑ West, Nigel (2014). Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 534. ISBN 9780810878976. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  13. ↑ West, Nigel (2014). Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780810878976. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
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