MI9

MI9, the British Military Intelligence section 9 (now defunct), was a department of the British War Office during World War II. It was charged with aiding resistance fighters in Nazi-controlled Europe and recovering Allied troops who found themselves behind enemy lines (e.g., pilots who had been shot down). It also communicated with British prisoners of war and sent them advice and equipment.

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MI9 was set up in December 1940. At first it was placed in the Room 424 of the Metropole Hotel, Northumberland Avenue in London but later it was moved to Wilton Park, Beaconsfield.

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