MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service's 116-year history. Blaise Metreweli, who ...

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Ms Metreweli will become the international spying agency’s 18th chief and its first female leader. She joined MI6 in 1999 and has spent time in the field in the Middle East and Europe. She won the ...

MI6 plays a vital role -- with MI5 and Government Communications Headquarters -- in keeping the British people safe and promoting U.K. interests overseas," she said.

MI6, founded in 1909, joins the other main British spy agencies, the domestic spy service MI5, and the intelligence communications agency GCHQ, in having appointed a female head.

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.

MI6 will be led by a female spy chief for the first time in its 116-year-old history. Blaise Metreweli has been appointed as the next head of the Secret Intelligence Service, replacing Sir Richard ...