On 24 February 2006, UK legal history was made. On that day, MI6 (UK Foreign Intelligence Service) agreed to pay three ex-servicemen £10,000 each in an out of court settlement having been accused of assaulting them. A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, said: “The settlement offers were …
Some years ago, the famous British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth admitted that he had worked for the UK’s MI6 intelligence agency for more than twenty years during the Cold War. He was first recruited during the Biafran War in Nigeria (1967-70) where he was working as a journalist for Reuters. …
In the UK, the “Parental Nationality Requirement” has been removed from applicants to SIS, MI5 and GCHQ. Previously, applicants needed at least one parent to be either a British citizen or an immigrant from a list of approved countries. Applicants now need only to be British citizens. The requirement has …
29 July: SIS, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, has a new Chief. He is Richard Moore, a senior Foreign Office official and former British ambassador to Turkey. He will take up his post in October. Moore beat Tom Hurd, the other front runner, in the final round of selection. Moore’s …
It has taken sixteen months, but the truth has finally emerged about interference by MI6 in an Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) investigation. The IPT is the court that considers cases involving complaints against the British intelligence services. In February 2019, the IPT was considering whether it was legal for the …