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The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service serves as the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also commonly known as MI6), which is part of the United Kingdom intelligence community. The chief is appointed by the foreign secretary, to whom they report directly. Annual reports are also made to the prime minister. [1]
MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, London. Younger joined MI6 in 1991. [2] He joined the service at the same time as Richard Tomlinson, who in his book The Big Breach, portrayed him as "Spencer", a St Andrews graduate and former Scots Guard who was recruited while working for the Halo Trust in Afghanistan.
MI6 personnel in the country never exceeded 50; in early 2004, apart from supporting Task Force Black in hunting down former senior Ba'athist party members, MI6 also made an effort to target "transnational terrorism"/jihadist networks that led to the SAS carrying out Operation Aston in February 2004: They conducted a raid on a house in Baghdad ...
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]
The former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, warned last month that police and intelligence agencies in Britain should be “on their toes” as the assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders by ...
Dearlove joined MI6 in 1966 and was posted to Nairobi in 1968. [6] In 1984, he was appointed an OBE.After being posted to Prague, Paris and Geneva, he became head of Washington station in 1991, [6] director of personnel and administration in 1993 and director of operations in 1994. [6]
The international world order is under threat in a way not seen since the Cold War, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned.. In the first joint op-ed penned by the leaders of the British and ...
Second former intelligence officer suggested a bomb in a ‘wine crate’ may have downed the jet Former MI6 spy chief says all signs suggest Wagner boss Prigozhin was ‘taken out’ by Putin ...