Confessions of a spy boss: MI6 chief Richard Moore admits he only went to ‘half a dozen lectures’ while at Oxford University as he wanted to play hockey and see his girlfriend MI6 boss says he was not the ‘perfect student’ during three year stint at Oxford He admitted to focusing mainly on hockey and … Read more
Jason Statham gives a glimpse of his MI6 agent character in new poster for the upcoming spy thriller Wrath of Man directed by Guy Ritchie By Amelia Wynne For Mailonline Published: 15:52 GMT, 25 March 2021 | Updated: 15:52 GMT, 25 March 2021 He is set to take on a leading role in the upcoming … Read more
Ralph Fiennes is ‘very keen’ to portray James Bond’s MI6 boss M in future 007 films after Daniel Craig’s departure By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 01:25 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 01:27 GMT, 20 February 2021 Ralph Fiennes has revealed he is ‘very keen’ to continue playing James Bond‘s MI6 boss M, even … Read more
Richard Moore, chief of Secret Intelligence Service MI6, has apologised for the agency’s past treatment of LGBT+ people, adding they had deprived themselves of the ‘best talent’ Britain offers.
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
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