The head of Britainʼs foreign intelligence agency, also known as MI6, will be a woman for the first time in its history — 47-year-old Blaise Metreveli.
This was reported by the British government.
“Blaise Metreveli’s historic appointment comes at a time when the work of our intelligence services has never been more important. The United Kingdom faces threats of an unprecedented scale – whether from aggressors sending their spy ships into our waters or hackers whose sophisticated cyber plots are aimed at disrupting our public services,” the Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement on Metreveli’s appointment.
The head of foreign intelligence has operational responsibility for MI6 in his position. He is the only public member of the organization — he is also called "C".
Blaise Metreveli.
Prior to this appointment, Blaise Metreveli served as Head of Technology and Innovation at MI6, and previously held senior positions in counter-intelligence. Metreveli is also known to have joined the intelligence service in 1999, while still a student at Cambridge.
The current head of MI6, Richard Moore, will step down in the autumn, after five years in office.
- MI6 was founded in 1909. It is, in fact, the British foreign intelligence service. Its main task is to collect and analyze intelligence information about foreign citizens abroad.
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