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.
BBC News
MI6
British intelligence agency
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, 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. SIS is one of the British intelligence agencies and the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service ("C") is directly accountable to the Foreign Secretary.
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