MI8, or Military Intelligence, Section 8 was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. It originally consisted of four sections: MI8(a), which dealt with wireless policy; MI8(b), based at the General Post Office, dealt with commercial and trade cables; MI8(c) dealt with the distribution of intelligence derived from censorship; and MI8(d), which liaised with the cable companies. During World War I MI8 officers were posted to the cable terminals at Poldhu Point and Mullion in Cornwall and Clifden in County Galway, continued until 1917 whe
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MI8 — аббревиатура от англ. Military Intelligence, Section 8 (Военная разведка, Секция 8), — спецслужба Великобритании, созданная во время Второй мировой войны, основной функцией которой было ведение радиоразведки.
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