The first woman of the UK Mi6 is close to determining his head

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The UK government is nearing the election of the first female head of the secret intelligence service, the two women in the recent competition for the best job in the agency were employed with dangerous work to spy on foreign abroad.

In the last few weeks, four candidates, who are short-listed to lead the British Foreign Intelligence Service, knocked to two to two people who are familiar with the process.

Traditionally, the last pair of Barbara Woodward for a business known as traditionally known by C “is currently a candidate for the UN Permanent Representative and Former Chinese Ambassador and MI6.

Given the surrounding privacy Fog Personnel, the chief is the only member of a spy agency called “tired” or explicitly. For this reason, the financial time does not call the domestic candidate.

The successful candidate will be the first female head of the service in more than a century since SIS was established. The current head of this fall, Sir Richard Moore, will take the role of autumn when stepping after five years. Moore was a lawyer of the greater variety in the meetings and previously promised to be the last “C” to be elected from a short list or the last “C”.

The final decision will be made by Prime Minister Sir Hef News Foreign Minister David Lammya after a round of “fire and oposes” with candidates. Jonathan Powell is expected to enter Starmer’s National Security Counselor. The process is managed by the Cabinet Bureau under the Pat McFadden of Lancaster Shower’s Chancellor’s Pat McFadden.

The successful candidate for the next few weeks is expected to be announced, three people who are familiar with discussions were said to be three people. This week was partially delayed to prevent the conflict with the publication of the long-awaited strategic defense opinion.

In the final four, Jonathan Allen, Defense and Development Department, was the CEO of the Defense and Development Department (FCDO) and another two candidates, FCDO and Development (FCDO).

As a potentially appointed a woman’s SIS supervisor, the UK government proved that life is actually art. Actress Dame Judi Dench was the first time the head of the MI6 in the James Bond film for the first time 30 years Gold.

However, in real life, a woman’s leader was waiting for so long, but also teased the brotherly agency in the UK and Atlantic.

The internal intelligence agency of England was appointed by Dame Stella Rimington, Dame Stella Rimington in 1992, and Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller became the head of the agency 10 years later.

Britain’s Alerts Intelligence Agency GCHQ appointed Anne Keast-Utler as the first female director two years ago. Donald Trump became the first female director of Gina Haspel Cia in the first period as US President.

The new C “will work in a critical time for the UK intelligence community, because Russia provokes by Russia, Iran’s security threat and Iran’s critical infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure is in the increase in cyber attacks.

Relationships, including five Eye Intelligence Union – UK, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – also established by Trump threatened to reduce military support and launching Canada to the United States.

Some former ambassadors, including Moham and Sir John Saqren, are rare to be a foreign candidate without direct experience in the agency, including the role of the SIS. Woodward is never realized that it never works directly for Mi6.

Moore, who had previously been in Turkey’s ambassador to Turkey, has long been joined and has spent more than two years before leaving the university and left Ankara.

FCDO, which has controlled the Mi6, did not comment immediately.