1 week ago Security experts praise the Mail for doing a 'national service' by revealing new MI6 chief's granddad was a Nazi spy chief

A Mail investigation found incoming Secret Intelligence Service boss Blaise Metreweli is descended from notorious Ukrainian traitor Constantine Dobrowolski.

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1 week ago New MI6 chief's grandad was leading Nazi spy who 'helped exterminate Jews'

Blaise Metreweli was announced as the new head of MI6 earlier this month, but it has now emerged that her grandfather was a Nazi spy chief

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1 week ago Grandfather of incoming MI6 chief was leading Nazi spy, reports say

Blaise Metreweli is set to become the first female head of the organisation.

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1 week ago In a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, we reveal the grandfather of the brilliant new head of MI6 was a Nazi spy chief

When Blaise Metreweli was announced as the next head of MI6 it was immediately apparent she had long been groomed for the top.

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2 w. ago Britain on track to lose 'unprecedented' 16,500 millionaires in 2025 amid high taxes and non

The UK is set to lose twice as many high net worth individuals as China and ten times as many as Russia this year

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2 w. ago 'Strong case' for Donald Trump to attack Iran's nuclear sites with bunker

Sir John Sawers, head of the Secret Intelligence Service from 2009 to 2014, believes it may be better if the US president ‘got on with it’

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3 w. ago MI6 has appointed its first female leader. What took it so long? | Zoe Williams

From politics to business, the determination to exclude women is purely emotional – a fact that remains as unspoken as it is obviousMI6 has never had a female head in its 116-year history – until now. How fitting that the first woman should be called Blaise Metreweli. That forename has it all: derring-do (courtesy of Modesty Blaise), onomatopoeia, modernity.Metreweli will take over in the autumn as C, the real-life version of M from James Bond. She currently runs Q branch, MI6’s technology division, which apparently is named after the Bond quartermaster. No fictional Q has ever been female, but in real life at least two women, including Metreweli, are thought to have held the role. M can be male or female, except now they succeed or fail by how much they resemble Judi Dench, so all of them, including the incumbent, Ralph Fiennes, are de facto female. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago First female 'C' to take reins of secret service MI6 as UK faces 'unprecedented' threats

Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer who currently serves as director of technology at the organisation, will become the 18th chief in the organisation’s 116-year history

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3 w. ago Blaise Metreweli appointed first ever female MI6 chief as Britain faces 'unprecedented threats'

She is currently Director General ‘Q’, responsible for technology and innovation at the Secret Intelligence Service, a role made famous by the gadgets chief in James Bond films

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3 w. ago Britain’s MI6 spy agency promotes ‘Q’ to be first female head 

Appointment of Blaise Metreweli comes as agents grapple with competing threats

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3 w. ago Blaise Metreweli named as first woman to lead UK intelligence service MI6

Metreweli, 47, has held series of director-level roles in foreign intelligence service and in domestic agency MI5MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, is to be led by a woman for the first time, Keir Starmer has announced.Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer who joined the service in 1999, will take over from Sir Richard Moore in the autumn, becoming its 18th chief. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago MI6 appoints first ever female chief to lead secret intelligence service

Blaise Metreweli will become 'C', the only publicly named member of the MI6 intelligence service, in the autumn - the first woman ever to hold the top-secret job

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