Posts Tagged ‘intelligence services’
Counter Spy Shop, London, United Kingdom
The Counter Spy Shop allows geeks to indulge those childhood fantasies we all had of being James Bond — if you’ve got the money for it. [Read More]
Millennium Hotel, London, United Kingdom
This is a hotel with a rather dubious claim to fame… It’s the place where Russian intelligence officials are alleged to have poisoned prominent critic and author Alexander Litvinenko. [Read More]
Ian Fleming’s House, London, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming moved into 16 Victoria Square just as his first novel was being published in 1953, with the title “Casino Royale”. [Read More]
Kingsway Telephone Exchange, London, United Kingdom
We know it sounds dull, but this is a telephone exchange with a very exciting history. [Read More]
National Cryptologic Museum, Maryland, United States
The National Cryptologic Museum is the public face of the shadowy US National Security Agency and offers an insight into the codebreaking work of America’s most secret agency. [Read More]
Thames House, London, United Kingdom
Thames House is the not-so-secret headquarters of Britain’s Security Service, the internal intelligence service commonly known as MI5. [Read More]
SIS Building, London, United Kingdom
Rather incongruously for a national spy agency, the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service (occasionally known as MI6) is a very obvious landmark on the River Thames. [Read More]
Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Best known to most as the secretive site responsible for cracking the German Enigma code during the Second World War, Bletchley Park is now a centre dedicated to its other achievement as the birthplace of the modern computer. [Read More]
