The new MI6 chief Blaise Metrewelis family past has come under scrutiny after reports revealed her grandfather was a Nazi spy ...

Britain on Sunday named Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, as the first female head of the Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6.

SPY chiefs probed a suspected “Russian double agent” at the heart of MI6 in a 20-year global operation, it has been revealed.

Metreweli once said that being an agent was the only job she ever wanted, and she had learned amateur tradecraft, like a cipher system known as pigpen code, when she was young.

The grandfather of the incoming head of MI6 was a Nazi spy chief, reports have said. Blaise Metreweli was announced as the ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 17, 2025, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: U.K. Intelligence Agency, MI6, Names Career Spy as Its 1st Female Chief.

Britain’s real-life spies have finally caught up with James Bond. MI6 has appointed its first female chief. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Sunday that Blaise Metreweli will be the next ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Britain’s real-life spies have finally caught up with James Bond. MI6 has appointed its first female chief. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Sunday that Blaise Metreweli ...