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MI6 is recruiting foreign-born spies for the first time in bid to increase diversity among its secret agents Recruits will no longer need to have been born in the UK to apply for roles at MI6 Whitehall source claimed diversification would make the agency ‘more effective’ However, any dual citizens may be asked to give up … Read more
More than a dozen British universities are under investigation over commercial relationships with the Chinese government that might break laws designed to protect national security and human rights, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The institutions – which include some of the most prestigious universities in the country – could be hit by ‘enforcement notices’ … Read more
An MI6 training officer warned superiors that notorious double agent George Blake was ‘unreliable’, ‘un-british’ and lacked the qualities to work in the field for the Secret Intelligence Service, newly released papers have revealed. The warning came before his treachery began – which is feared to have sent 600 spies to their deaths by betraying them to … Read more
It was December 1996 and my father had just bought a copy of John le Carré’s newly published spy thriller, The Tailor Of Panama. When he saw that the book’s hero had almost the same surname as him, he smiled. But the further he read, the more the coincidences began to pile up, and by … Read more
The former home of a British spymaster who helped defeat the Nazi and was said to be the inspiration for James Bond’s ‘M’ has gone on the market for £2.5million. Bridges Court in Luckington, Wilts, was purchased by Sir Stewart Menzies in the 1920s before the became head of MI6 where he led the British Secret … Read more
MI6 paid tribute to legendary spy author John le Carré this morning, with the intelligence service’s head mourning the ‘giant of literature’. Chief Richard Moore gave his thoughts after the writer died yesterday following a short battle with pneumonia. Le Carré used to work at MI6 himself and its previous boss had once claimed his … Read more
The new head of MI6 has become the first member of the British secret service to openly post on Twitter. Richard Moore already had an account before taking over as ‘C’ and said he plans to continue using the social media site but ‘can neither confirm nor deny how often’. The 57-year-old tweeted last night … Read more
Dread and paranoia had settled over Prague like smog. Dissent was brutally crushed by the Communist regime, suspected traitors executed on the flimsiest of pretexts. But when MI6 officer Robert Gardner, having flown in from London, passed through the revolving doors of the famous Alcron hotel on February 20, 1951 – just as Winston Churchill, Charlie … Read more
A stunning penthouse that was the former MI6 headquarters during the First World War and which recently made an appearance in the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, has hit the market for £5.5 million. The 4,144 square-foot property, located over the top three floors of the prominent Whitehall Court in central London, boasts … Read more
New MI6 boss Richard Moore’s grandad was IRA fighter who won medal for fighting against British rule Richard Moore’s grandfather was an IRA fighter between 1916 and 1922 Jack Buckley won a medal from Sinn Fein for fighting against the British rule Mr Moore, 57, is set to take over as head of the Secret … Read more