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The new chief of MI6 has told Times Radio the organisation's started ‘green spying’ on big industrial countries for the first time to make sure they uphold their climate change commitments.
In the first broadcast interview that any serving head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has given, which can be heard this morning from 10am, Richard Moore, told Gloria De Piero and Tom Newton Dunn:
Our job is to shine a light in places where people might not want it shone, if you like. And so clearly we are going to support what is the foremost international foreign policy agenda item for this country and for the planet, which is around the climate emergency, and of course we have a role in that space.
Where people sign up to commitments on climate change, it is perhaps our job to make sure that actually what they are really doing reflects what they have signed up to.
As somebody used to say – trust but verify. On climate change where you need everyone to come on board and to play fair, then occasionally just check to make sure they are.
On Russia: Richard Moore said Vladimir Putin was warned the country would “pay a huge price” if he invaded Ukraine, before he began pulling back thousands of troops from the Ukraine border two days ago.
He said: The Russians are in absolutely no doubt of where the UK stands on this issue. And they are in absolutely no doubt of where the Biden administration stands on this issue, because channels are open.
It's also been revealed that MI6 is recruiting a new “Q” from outside the service for the first time. The Secret Intelligence Service will advertise for an expert to run the gadgets and technical branch immortalised in James Bond films.
Richard Moore said: We are in an increasingly contested, difficult world where technology is making what we do for a living more of a challenge. We have to use and harness technology and the only way we can do that, I think, is with good leadership and somebody who can help us partner with the private sector.
He revealed that the head of MI6’s technical department has taken the title “director-general Q” from the Bond films. Moore said: In this one, life imitates art. We were reshaping our technical side and couldn’t think of the right name for it. In the end we thought well, come on, let’s go for it, and so we decided to call it Q.
Richard Moore also told Times Radio:
The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan by September is forcing intelligence agencies like MI6 to “work very differently” and find new ways of controlling the terror threat in the country.
And MI6 have thwarted bids by Islamist terror groups to build a dirty bomb and launch it on a British or European target.
In the first broadcast interview that any serving head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has given, which can be heard this morning from 10am, Richard Moore, told Gloria De Piero and Tom Newton Dunn:
Our job is to shine a light in places where people might not want it shone, if you like. And so clearly we are going to support what is the foremost international foreign policy agenda item for this country and for the planet, which is around the climate emergency, and of course we have a role in that space.
Where people sign up to commitments on climate change, it is perhaps our job to make sure that actually what they are really doing reflects what they have signed up to.
As somebody used to say – trust but verify. On climate change where you need everyone to come on board and to play fair, then occasionally just check to make sure they are.
On Russia: Richard Moore said Vladimir Putin was warned the country would “pay a huge price” if he invaded Ukraine, before he began pulling back thousands of troops from the Ukraine border two days ago.
He said: The Russians are in absolutely no doubt of where the UK stands on this issue. And they are in absolutely no doubt of where the Biden administration stands on this issue, because channels are open.
It's also been revealed that MI6 is recruiting a new “Q” from outside the service for the first time. The Secret Intelligence Service will advertise for an expert to run the gadgets and technical branch immortalised in James Bond films.
Richard Moore said: We are in an increasingly contested, difficult world where technology is making what we do for a living more of a challenge. We have to use and harness technology and the only way we can do that, I think, is with good leadership and somebody who can help us partner with the private sector.
He revealed that the head of MI6’s technical department has taken the title “director-general Q” from the Bond films. Moore said: In this one, life imitates art. We were reshaping our technical side and couldn’t think of the right name for it. In the end we thought well, come on, let’s go for it, and so we decided to call it Q.
Richard Moore also told Times Radio:
The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan by September is forcing intelligence agencies like MI6 to “work very differently” and find new ways of controlling the terror threat in the country.
And MI6 have thwarted bids by Islamist terror groups to build a dirty bomb and launch it on a British or European target.
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