The Foreign Office said the secret intelligence body MI6 had made the settlements after legal advice.
The Iraqi family connection will doubtless prompt a call to MI6, the British secret intelligence service.
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MI6 is to be given a leading role in the international war against drug trafficking.
MI6 is extremely interested in Dr Markoff, a creepy Russian scientist who is experimenting on monkeys.
MI6 has diversified into the war on drugs and a spot of commercial intelligence.
One such insubstantial claim is said to link MI6 with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
He didn't bother going to MI6 or researching the spy world, he simply went to "the source".
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Williams was recruited into the intelligence services straight from university, working with Government Communications Headquarters before MI6.
London's Foreign Office, responsible for the country's overseas secret intelligence service MI6, declined to comment on Lugovoi's claim.
The other figure who has done much to shape the public understanding of MI6 is John le Carre.
Litvinenko had an MI6 handler known only as "Martin, " whom he would meet in central London, he said.
MI6's chiefs wholly withstood the temptation to use the material even slightly selectively, for the purposes of disinformation.
Two people on the 1992 list, the heads of MI5 and MI6, were top secret in those days.
They claim the UK government, including MI5 and MI6, failed to stop their detention or were complicit in it.
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Two London business intelligence consultancies are run by retired senior officers of MI6.
Do these contacts and relationships mean MI6 could have been complicit in some way in the death of Lumumba?
Mr Duncan Smith said all asylum seekers should be housed in secure centres until vetted by MI5 and MI6.
MI6 agents and tourists on their way between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
MI6, which employ roughly 4, 000 people between them, have led a charmed life.
Among the tricks of the spy trade the book reportedly reveals is MI6's accidentally discovered method of transferring secret messages.
While his plan was enthusiastically embraced by member of SOE and the Political Warfare Executive, MI5 and MI6 were appalled.
That third member is usually a former Whitehall official whose career was inside MI5, MI6, GCHQ or the Foreign Office.
Last year saw the case of "the rock" - allegedly a device planted by MI6 to receive coded data from agents.
Returning to MI6 in its hour of greatest need, 007 can't shoot straight, fails his physical and his psych test, too.
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The cache of letters apparently features convivial correspondence between MI6 officials and Mousa Kousa, then the head of Libya's intelligence operations.
Quest enlists the help of Harry Ferguson, a former MI6 agent, to see if he can conquer evil and save the day.
The CIA, MI6 and other agencies had a poor reading of threats because they had too few first-hand sources in the region.
MI6's yellowcake allegation derives from information shared by the intelligence services of two other countries, and not passed on to the Americans.
MI6 agent, was remanded in custody last week after a court was told that he was writing a book about his experiences.
The pre-inquest review has previously been told that Mr Litvinenko was working alongside Spanish spies for MI6 in the days before his death.
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