Security Intelligence Far East

Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE) was a British intelligence organization created in 1946 as the Far Eastern regional headquarters of the Security Service, MI5. 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[1][2][3][4]. SIFE (like SIME) was also a MI5 controlled organisation, which partially merged its counterintelligence section with the regional headquarters of MI6 in 1950[5][6]. SIFE controlled a number of MI5 Defence Security Officers (from 1949, named Security Liaison Officers) in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya and across the Far East.[7][8]. There are records of eight SIFE heads after Colonel Dixon[9]:

  • Malcolm Johnson 1946–1947
  • Hugh Winterborn 1947–1948
  • Alex Kellar 1948–1949
  • Jack Morton 1949–1952
  • Courtenay Young 1952–1955
  • Richard Thistlethwaite 1955–1959
  • Michael Friend Serpell 1960–1962
  • Christopher Alfred Herbert 1962-1963[10].

SIFE was disbanded in 1963, as British military commitments in Singapore and Malaysia reduced and the birth of an independent Malaysia approached, which Singapore was initially part of.

References
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  9. 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" (PDF). Intelligence and National Security. 32 (6): 3. doi:10.1080/02684527.2017.1289695. ISSN 0268-4527.
  10. >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" (PDF). Intelligence and National Security. 32 (6): 3. doi:10.1080/02684527.2017.1289695. ISSN 0268-4527.
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