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LONDON, United Kingdom — Britain on Sunday named Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, as the first female head of the Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as ...
Britain’s real-life spies have finally caught up with James Bond. MI6 has appointed its first female chief. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday announced that Blaise Metreweli is to be the ...
Years after Judi Dench played James Bond's boss on the big screen, a woman will soon lead the real MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service, for the first time. I spy NPR's Lauren Frayer in London.
MI6, or the Secret Intelligence Service, is the UK's foreign intelligence agency, responsible for gathering overseas intelligence to protect national security and support foreign policy.
It's a case of real life catching up with James Bond fiction: Britain's MI6 spy agency named its first-ever female chief. She used to be Q. Now she'll be C.
47-year-old Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to head MI6, joined the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom in 1999. Sunday, Jun 22, 2025 New Delhi o C ...
MI6 is the final British intelligence agency to appoint a woman as its leader. Stella Rimington led MI5 from 1992 to 1996, and Eliza Manningham-Buller later ran it between 2002 and 2007.
LONDON — Q is becoming C. The head of technology and innovation at Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency — the real-life equivalent of James Bond's gadget-master Q — has been promoted to the ...