100 years of MI6 & MI5

The Security Services

Commemorate the historic 100th Year of MI5 and MI6 with these superb giant luxury posters - available only from Eye Spy

In Autumn 2009, both MI5 and MI6 are 100 years old, the latter going operational just 72 hours before Vernon Kell, the head of the Home Section of the Secret Service Bureau sat down in his office. Kell began work on a Monday, while his counterpart, the eccentric first chief of the Foreign Section - Mansfield Cumming, decided to open his door on the Friday before. Even today, MI6 is proud of this fact, though it has been rumoured Cumming did this on purpose as both agencies should have started functioning at the same time!

These famous services have provided the basis for countless books, documentaries and even pictures. Eye Spy has worked with a number of parties to create these posters, and most of the photographs and text have been carefully researched and commissioned. Besides providing an illuminating history of the journey of MI5 and MI6, the posters are packed with facts and anecdotes.