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Did the UK begin skipping numbers or are some of the defunct agencies "missing"? --
216.75.93.110 12:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)reply
Both. 13 and 18 seem to have been skipped. --
Henrygb 10:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)reply
I asked the same question on the categories, but then I went down both the articles and one of them reports that MI13 and MI18 are officially reported to have gone unused. Seems strange to me, probably the english are either keeping them secret, or wants us to think they've got something they're keeping secret. I'd bet on the latter. Reminds me of a time a mate of mine pulled a prank in Uni, yeah? and he got 3 pigs together, on the first two pig's backs he wrote the numbers 1 and 2, and then on the back of the third pig he wrote a 4, so he had the bloody blokes looking all around the school
for a third pig that never existed! (unsigned comment)
Perhaps, but judging from the list at
MI numbers there might be some merit in at least MI13. If MI18 did not exist, there could be an article about it explaining the theories surrounding its ommittance. I've added both.
László 16:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I have some theories. MI13 was probably skipped due to superstition. If you look at MI19, you'll see that they had MI1 through 17(except 13) then MI19 broke off from MI9. So, perhaps because it was from MI9 they made it MI19 and MI18 was never omitted purposefully (MI17 may have been omitted as well had there only been 1-16).
Al9d9 (
talk) 04:13, 7 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Secret Intelligence Australia
does a link to this article belong in this template.
Hossen27 09:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)reply
As it was ultimately accountable to the British Government, I think it probably should. « Keitht/e» 12:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Depends, is this template about British intelligence agencies (agencies accountable to the United Kingdom) or intelligence agencies which operate in the United Kingdom? « Keitht/e» 17:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)reply
There were two more MIs not listed on the template. MIR was originally (WW1) for Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, China, Japan, Siam and India
[1] and MIL (WW2) was for attaches
[2] (military intelligence attaches from allied countries?).
59.167.46.18 (
talk) 13:06, 5 July 2009 (UTC)reply
There are two unused numbers as well... MI13 and MI18... one wonders if the two are related.
65.95.14.96 (
talk) 22:08, 19 February 2011 (UTC)reply