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MI6 appoints first female chief in 116-year history

by mellosouls on 6/16/25, 1:12 AM with 14 comments

  • by Rendello on 6/16/25, 2:23 AM

    I immediately thought of Judy Dench's performance of "M" in James Bond. Turns out, the code name for the real position is "C" (which is in the article).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(James_Bond)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_the_Secret_Intelligen...

  • by rzz3 on 6/16/25, 2:15 AM

    Why is this news? Obviously I want gender equality anywhere and everywhere, but these headlines feel tired.
  • by fcpk on 6/16/25, 11:06 AM

    MI6 is quite a nasty secret agency. Behind all the nice hollywood-clichés, they are a very nasty organization that has a list of horrors on its name: - albanians uprisings of the 50s - OUN/UPA funding of the 50s - iranian coup of 53 - guiana coup of 64 - working with the cia to arm mujahideen in the 80s - lybian terror operations of the 00s to get back oil - disinformation operations for iraq wars(operation mass appeal) in the 00s, and many others - assassinations(for example in kenya even recently) - work with nazi collaborators in many eastern countries in the past 30 years to destabilize governments - trapping julian assange - implication in bombing operations all across the world(for example operation goldfish)

    Remember they are allowed to operate in a completly unrestricted way even against british citizens. They are as bad people as Mossad and CIA.