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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] He was previously the British Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2007 to November 2009. [3] [4]
Plans to rotate the selection of Chief among the various branches of military service were considered, but most subsequent Chiefs have been career intelligence officers. [ 6 ] Although the existence of the Secret Intelligence Service, much less its Chief, was not officially acknowledged until 1992, [ 8 ] the role's reality was an open secret ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gareth Wyn Williams (26 September 1978 – c. 16 August 2010) was a Welsh mathematician and Junior Analyst for GCHQ on secondment to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) who was found dead in suspicious circumstances in Pimlico, London, on 23 August 2010, at a flat used to house Security Service's staff.
Sir John Sawers said the situation in the Middle East will not change ‘a great deal’.
Sir John Sawers is named head of MI6. Sammy Sosa, one of six Major League Baseball players to have hit 600 home runs in his career, is reported to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during the 2003 season. (The New York Times)
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 ...