US EditionNew MI6 Chief Makes First Public Speech
MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli warns of Russia's hybrid warfare tactics, calling for intelligence officers to blend human skills with technology to counter ongoing threats.
- On Monday, Blaise Metreweli will use a Royal United Services Institute speech in London to warn that the front line is everywhere and Russia is an acute, aggressive threat.
- Western officials say Western sanctions have damaged Russia's economy but have not forced President Vladimir Putin to abandon the war in Ukraine.
- Metreweli, who joined MI6 in 1999, rose through Q Branch to lead technology and innovation before becoming chief at 48, urging officers to master coding like Python as core tradecraft.
- Defence leaders are urging a whole-of-society approach as Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton will on Monday call for national resilience and announce £50m for defence technical excellence colleges.
- The debate in Britain is gathering pace after recent weeks when France and Germany outlined voluntary national service plans, while speakers warn Russia aims to challenge and divide NATO.
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New UK spy chief warns of Russia’s ‘acute threat’
European officials are raising the alarm over Russia’s expansionist agenda and hybrid warfare tactics. “The new frontline is everywhere,” the UK’s MI6 chief said in her first speech atop the agency, warning that Russia poses an “acute threat” to the West. The EU on Monday tightened sanctions against Russian ally Belarus, following incursions by weather balloons into Lithuanian airspace, which officials believe are part of Moscow’s intensifying c…
New MI6 boss says Russia ‘testing us in the grey zone’ in first speech
The new head of MI6 has used her first major public speech in the job to warn of the growing threat Russia poses. Blaise Metreweli said the UK is operating in a “space between peace and war”, with Russia “testing us in the grey zone”.
“Christ, how I miss the Cold War!” Judi Dench complained in the film Casino Royale, of James Bond’s saga, in which the British actress played the role of head of MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service. In real life, the woman who for the first time in history runs that department, Blaise Metreweli, has inherited a world in which the main enemy remains an “aggressive, expansive and revisionist Russia.”
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