US EditionNew MI6 chief’s grandfather was Nazi spy known as ‘The Butcher’
- Blaise Metreweli was announced earlier this month as the first female head of MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service.
- Reports revealed her grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, defected from the Soviet Red Army in 1941 to become a Nazi informant in occupied Ukraine.
- Documents from German archives revealed that Dobrowolski was referred to as “The Butcher” and carried the designation Agent Number 30 among Wehrmacht leadership, and he was involved in the mass murder of Jews near Kyiv.
- Soviet authorities placed a 50,000-rouble bounty—worth around £200,000 today—on Dobrowolski, branding him as their most dangerous adversary in Ukraine.
- Blaise Metreweli did not have the opportunity to know her grandfather, who remained in Ukraine when her family escaped Soviet control in 1943, and her intricate Eastern European background has influenced her dedication to safeguarding Britain from contemporary threats.
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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…
They called him "The butcher": the grandfather of future intelligence chief Blaise Metreweli was said to have been a deserter of the Soviet army and worked for the Nazis in the area of today's Ukraine. The British government intervenes.
In autumn, Blaise Metreweli will be the first woman in the 116-year history of MI6 to take over the management of the foreign intelligence service. British media are now discovering dark shadows on the history of Metreweli's ancestors.
Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to lead the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), is a granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator who spyed and killed for Germany...
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