The senior
MI6 officer, referred to as "SIS2", told the inquiry: "We found Alastair Campbell, I think, an enthusiastic individual, but also somewhat of an unguided missile." He added: "We also, I think, suffered from his propensity to have rushes of blood to the head and pass various stories and information to journalists without appropriate prior consultation.
In 1941, Philby was recruited by
MI6, which was unaware that he had been secretly working for the Russians since the 1930s.
Neil Doyle, author of Terror Base UK, told the newspaper: "These are
MI6 documents relating to an operation against al Qaida insurgents in Iraq.
Here are some of the roles that MI5 and
MI6 are looking to fill...
After service as a useful intelligence asset in Denmark, Gordievsky returned to Moscow, and his intelligence activities on behalf of
MI6 essentially went dormant.
Younger said that
MI6 played a huge role in exposing the poisoning attack on Skripals while it coordinated the expulsion of Russian diplomats over the case.
An unnamed spokeswoman said: "The concept was to play on the Bond image but to explain very clearly that this was not James Bond." The ad is to help
MI6 recruit 800 staff by 2021.
At a briefing at
MI6 headquarters, the agency's head of recruitment, herself a mother with 20 years in the service, said the advertisement deliberately sought to subvert the Bond image.
Interwoven relationships between members of the Foreign Office, Eurasian agents, Russian and Chinese State Security personnel and the Bratva, provide a fast paced, highly complex scenario, challenging MI5 and
MI6, now operating under new Director Generals, to work together, as never before, in Defence of the Realm.
The
Mi6 comes with version 8.5 of MIUI, which is based on Android 7.1.1.
MI6's not-so-secret website is advertising intelligence officer positions.