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UK Names Blaise Metreweli as First Woman to Head MI6 Spy Service

  • Blaise Metreweli will become the first woman to head MI6, Britain's spy service, in a "historic appointment".
  • Metreweli, 47, has spent her entire career as an intelligence officer and is currently the head of MI6's technology and innovation division.
  • The appointment of Metreweli comes at a time when the work of intelligence services "has never been more vital" due to threats from Russia and China.
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Britain's foreign intelligence service MI6 has a female director for the first time in 116 years. Blaise Metreweli (47) will fill the role, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced.

·Amersfoort, Netherlands
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Until now, this has only been done in the James Bond films, and in autumn it will become a reality: for the first time a woman will lead the British foreign intelligence service. The long-time agent Metreweli has been named head of MI6.

·Hamburg, Germany
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Blaise Metreweli has been the technology chief with the code name "Q", an allusion to the inventor from the James Bond films. Now she joins the head of MI6, "C" .

·Vienna, Austria
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In the future, a woman will be at the head of the British foreign intelligence service for the first time.

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The Telegraph broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Sunday, June 15, 2025.
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