Security Intelligence Far East


Security Intelligence Far East was a British intelligence organization created in 1946 as the Far Eastern regional headquarters of the Security Service, MI5. It was based in British-controlled Singapore and established by Colonel Cyril Egerton Dixon, a career MI5 officer with a great deal of war time counter intelligence experience in Britain and India. SIFE was also a MI5 controlled organisation, which partially merged its counterintelligence section with the regional headquarters of MI6 in 1950. SIFE controlled a number of MI5 Defence Security Officers in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya and across the Far East.. There are records of eight SIFE heads after Colonel Dixon:
SIFE was disbanded in 1963, as British military commitments in Singapore and Malaysia reduced and the birth of an independent Malaysia approached, which Singapore was initially part of.