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  2. Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service - Wikipedia

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    A 10 August 1909 letter from the Director of Naval Intelligence, Alexander Bethell, to then-Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming offered him a "new billet": the opportunity to head the Foreign Section of the new Secret Service Bureau. Cumming was to begin in this role on 1 October 1909, but bureaucratic and funding obstacles delayed the start of ...

  3. Richard Moore (diplomat) - Wikipedia

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    Sir Richard Peter Moore KCMG (born 9 May 1963) is a British civil servant, currently chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and formerly Director General for Political Affairs, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, [1] [2] [3] and previously the British ambassador to Turkey. [1]

  4. John Sawers - Wikipedia

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    Sir Robert John Sawers (born 26 July 1955) is a British intelligence officer, diplomat and civil servant. He was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), [1] a position he held from November 2009 until November 2014. [2]

  5. MI6 - Wikipedia

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    In 1924, MI6 intervened in the general election of that year by leaking the so-called Zinoviev letter to the Daily Mail, which published it on its front page on 25 October 1924. [40] The letter, which was a forgery, was supposedly from Grigory Zinoviev, the chief of the Comintern, ordering British Communists to take over the Labour Party.

  6. Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    In 1873 the Intelligence Branch was created within the Quartermaster General's Department with an initial staff of seven officers. [4] Initially the Intelligence Branch was solely concerned with collecting intelligence, but under the leadership of Henry Brackenbury , a protege of influential Adjutant-General Lord Wolseley , it was increasingly ...

  7. In the first joint op-ed penned by the leaders of the British and American intelligence services in their shared 77-year history, the MI6 chief Sir Richard Moore and CIA director William Burns ...

  8. Alex Younger - Wikipedia

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    Sir Alexander William Younger KCMG (born 4 July 1963) is a British intelligence officer who served as the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), [1] [2] from 2014 to 2020. [3] In April 2019, the government extended Younger's contract to maintain stability through the Brexit negotiations, [4] which made him the longest-serving MI6 chief ...

  9. China says Britain's MI6 turned two Chinese govt staff to spies

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    BEIJING (Reuters) -China has alleged that the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 turned two staff members of unnamed Chinese central state organs into spies for the British government, its ...