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Who is Blaise Metreweli, first female head of Britain’s MI6?
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a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English
A spook for over a quarter of a century, Metreweli was 'Q' at the spy agency. Now she'll be known as 'C'. Here's why.
9 days ago
MI6 has appointed its first female leader. What took it so long? | Zoe Williams
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
From politics to business, the determination to exclude women is purely emotional – a fact that remains as unspoken as it is obvious
MI6 has never had a female head in its 116-year history – until now…
Britain's MI6 appoints Blaise Metreweli as its first female chief in 116-year history
Blaise Metreweli, a Cambridge graduate who has worked in the intelligence service since 1999, will become the organisation's 18th leader.
Blaise Metreweli named as first woman to lead UK intelligence service MI6
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Metreweli, 47, has held series of director-level roles in foreign intelligence service and in domestic agency MI5
MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, is to be led by a woman for the first time…
MI6 appoints first female chief in 116-year history
Blaise Metreweli joined the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in 1999 and will become its 18th chief.
11 days ago
KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations
One of the most consequential Russian defectors in history was turned away several ti…
15 days ago
‘He changed the rules for all of us who came after’: Lee Child remembers Frederick Forsyth
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Forsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels writes
• Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jack…
How Freddie Forsyth wrote The Day Of The Jackal in 35 days - and based his novels on his life as an MI6 spy. But after passing away eight months after the death of his wife of 30 years, did he die of a broken heart?
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
His gripping thrillers made him one of Britain's most successful writers. But the extraordinary life of Frederick Forsyth was every bit as exciting as the novels that made his name and fortune.
16 days ago
Frederick Forsyth, former spy and Day of the Jackal author, dies aged 86
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a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English
Approached by Britain’s MI6 while reporting on Nigeria's Biafra War, he mined his experiences for literary inspiration.