The Wessex Secret Service (WSS), or the Wessex Intelligence Agency (WIS), is Wessex's single military intelligence, counter-intelligence and Secret Service. The service is headquartered in the Intelligence Service Headquarteres, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The Secret Service is under the jurisdiction of both the Home and Ministry of Defence of Wessex. Formed in 1976 under the Security Intelligence Act, it was created officially to 'Protect the people of Wessex from interior, and exterior threats', and to perform counter terrorism and counter-espionage operations in the nation.
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| - The Wessex Secret Service (WSS), or the Wessex Intelligence Agency (WIS), is Wessex's single military intelligence, counter-intelligence and Secret Service. The service is headquartered in the Intelligence Service Headquarteres, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The Secret Service is under the jurisdiction of both the Home and Ministry of Defence of Wessex. Formed in 1976 under the Security Intelligence Act, it was created officially to 'Protect the people of Wessex from interior, and exterior threats', and to perform counter terrorism and counter-espionage operations in the nation.
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| - The Wessex Secret Service (WSS), or the Wessex Intelligence Agency (WIS), is Wessex's single military intelligence, counter-intelligence and Secret Service. The service is headquartered in the Intelligence Service Headquarteres, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The Secret Service is under the jurisdiction of both the Home and Ministry of Defence of Wessex. Formed in 1976 under the Security Intelligence Act, it was created officially to 'Protect the people of Wessex from interior, and exterior threats', and to perform counter terrorism and counter-espionage operations in the nation. Since the end of the Cold War, the WSS's min priorities were reshuffled to Counter-Terrorism, namely the 2005 Bristol Attacks, which were foiled by the WSS.
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