US EditionNew MI6 chief’s grandfather was Nazi spy known as ‘The Butcher’
UNITED KINGDOM, JUN 27 – Blaise Metreweli becomes MI6's first female chief despite revelations that her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator known as 'The Butcher', with UK government distancing her from his crimes.
- Blaise Metreweli was appointed earlier this month as the first female head of MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.
- Her grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, defected from the Soviet Red Army to become a Nazi spy chief known as 'The Butcher' during World War II.
- German archives show Dobrowolski served in an SS tank unit, signed Nazi letters with 'Heil Hitler,' and claimed he 'personally' took part in the extermination of Jews near Kyiv.
- The Soviets placed a 50,000-rouble bounty on Dobrowolski, equivalent to about £200,000 today, calling him the 'worst enemy of the Ukrainian people.'
- Metreweli has no personal connection to her paternal grandfather, and her complex Eastern European heritage contributes to her commitment to protect Britain from modern threats.
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The grandfather of the newly appointed head of the UK's MI6 spy agency was a notorious Nazi, Moscow-controlled websites have dug up information. The British Foreign Office confirmed the report in veiled terms.
According to an investigation by the tabloid The Daily Mail, the paternal grandfather of the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service was a Nazi spy operating in Ukraine. In letters with his superiors, he claimed to have contributed "personally" to the "extermination of the Jews".
UK distances new MI6 chief from Nazi spy grandfather
The British government has distanced the incoming head of its foreign intelligence service from her grandfather following reports he was a Nazi spy known as "the butcher". Blaise Metreweli will in the autumn become the first woman to lead MI6 in its 116-year-old history, the British government announced earlier this month. The Daily Mail newspaper reported this week that her grandfather Constantine Dobrowolski defected from the Soviet Union's Re…
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