5 March: Former SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove has written an open letter to the UK’s Daily Telegraph along with 33 pro-Brexit academics and business leaders. The letter praises Brexit as offering “immediate opportunities” and criticises Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed deal as “disastrous”. Dearlove’s right-wing political affiliations are no …
A conman who posed as an MI6 agent has been extradited to the UK from Switzerland. Mark Acklom, 46, defrauded a Gloucestershire woman out of her life savings of £850,000. He fled the country in 2012 while he was under investigation. He was arrested in Zurich in June 2018 and …
22 February: As part of its outreach programme, the CIA website today reveals that among the many top secret job vacancies available at the Agency is the post of … hairdresser! The website explains that disguise is an important part of the work for CIA field officers and that the …
Major Cyrus Regnart (19/11/1871 – 20/7/1921) If one discounts Sir Mansfield Cumming, the first Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), then Cyrus Hunter Regnart – known as Roy to his friends – was the very first MI6 officer. He was also the very first head of an MI6 overseas …
On 10 February a story appeared in the Sunday Express stating that SIS, Mossad and the CIA had collaborated in an operation to smuggle a nuclear scientist out of Iran and, eventually, into the US. You can read the story here: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1085207/spies-MI6-smuggle-iranian-defector-dinghy-uk-channel The story is strange in that much of …