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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]
Richard Moore was born in Tripoli, Libya, on 9 May 1963. [3] He married Margaret Martin (Maggie) in 1985, with whom he has had a son and a daughter. [3]Moore's grandfather Jack Buckley served as a soldier of the Irish Republican Army from 1916 to 1922 in Cork, Ireland, and was awarded a medal by Sinn Féin for fighting against British rule.
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.
The Single Intelligence Account (SIA) is the funding vehicle for the three main security and intelligence agencies: the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), [44] Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [45] and the Security Service (MI5). [46] Spending on the SIA was £3.6 billion in financial year 2022/23. [47]
On June 14, 2015, the London Sunday Times reported that Russian and Chinese intelligence services had decrypted more than 1 million classified files in the Snowden cache, forcing the UK's MI6 intelligence agency to move agents out of live operations in hostile countries.
The first hearing in Donald Trump’s legal claim against a former MI6 officer’s intelligence consultancy is set to begin at the High Court.
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The ministry said MI6 also persuaded Wang to turn his wife, who worked at a "core government unit", for double the money. The wife, surnamed Zhou, eventually agreed.