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  • initialism UK Secret Intelligence Service

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  • "Issues are arising -- like who is bringing in sleeping bags without permission," said Laurie Dobson, who's been helping a self-governed "working group" called "SIS" -- for Shipping, Inventory and Supplies.

    unknown title 2011

  • "Issues are arising - like who is bringing in sleeping bags without permission," said Laurie Dobson, who's been helping a self-governed "working group" called "SIS" - for Shipping, Inventory and Supplies.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Issues are arising - like who is bringing in sleeping bags without permission," said Laurie Dobson, who's been helping a self-governed "working group" called "SIS" - for Shipping, Inventory and Supplies.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The overhaul of the SIS has been a matter of discussion at EU level for over a decade, according to European documents, but the update to what is now known as SIS II appears to remain at the blueprint stage.

    Gates of Vienna Baron Bodissey 2010

  • The overhaul of the SIS has been a matter of discussion at EU level for over a decade, according to European documents, but the update to what is now known as SIS II appears to remain at the blueprint stage.

    Gates of Vienna 2010

  • Members of SOE called SIS the Bastards of Broadway, after the street where the intelligence service had its headquarters.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • The SIS was the British equivalent of U.S. Secret Service, which meant that nothing and no one was leaving this section of the terminal until their guy was clear of any possible threat and tucked safely inside an armored car.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • Members of SOE called SIS the Bastards of Broadway, after the street where the intelligence service had its headquarters.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • Properly known as SIS (the Secret Intelligence Service), but popularly as 'MI6' (a cover-name adopted at the beginning of the Second World War), the British Secret Service has existed since 1909.

    Keith Jeffery: The Real James Bond? Keith Jeffery 2010

  • Properly known as SIS (the Secret Intelligence Service), but popularly as 'MI6' (a cover-name adopted at the beginning of the Second World War), the British Secret Service has existed since 1909.

    Keith Jeffery: The Real James Bond? 2010

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