1) Production (Ops) and Requirements (Int) were consolidated somewhere
c.1979-80; the R Sections, orignally 'functional' in nature (Political,
Air, Naval, Military,Industrial/Commercial, Scientific and GCHQ liaison)
were broken up along geographical lines and put along the geographical
Production Sections under regional Controllers (Sovbloc, Europe, Middle
East, Far East, Africa, and UK). The resulting order of battle was:
CSS
Director, Requirement & Production Director, Counter-Intelligence and
Security
Director, Personel and Administration Director, Support Services
2) In the first Sandbaggers novel, Mackintosh misuses the term
'controller' somewhat, describing the position as the officer in the Ops.
Room responsible for overseeing a particular operation while its in play.
Technically, a controller at HQ is an officer responsible at a senior
level in the chain of command for operations in a particular theatre (as
noted above). Part of the problem is that SIS uses the term 'controller'
a bit ambiguously; a controlling officer is also the case officer handling
a particular source, or a senior officer e.g. head of station, overseeing
the work of an outstation (e.g. h/s Istanbul used to act as controller for
h/s Bucharest).
Phil