JAKARTA - The new head of the British MI6 intelligence agency warned of Russian President Vladimir Putin's potential to create chaos around the world.
Blaise Metreweli will use his first public speech as head of the British foreign intelligence service to say Britain faces an increasingly unpredictable and interconnected threat, with an emphasis on an "aggressive and expansionist" Russia.
"The export of chaos is a hallmark, not a mistake, in Russia's approach to international engagement, and we must be prepared for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculations," he said, according to excerpts released by the Foreign Office, which oversees MI6. reported by ABC News, Monday, December 15.
The head of MI6, known as C, is the only employee of the secret agency whose name is made public.
Metreweli, who took over from Richard Moore at the end of September, was previously the director of technology and innovation at MI6 - the equivalent of the fictional figure James Bond, Q, who is an expert in technology.
He plans to say that technological sophistication and human intelligence are both key to combating hybrid threats, and MI6 officers "must be as adept with code lines as they are with human resources, as fluent in Python as they are in a range of languages."
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The speech was the latest in a series of warnings by Western defense and security authorities about the growing hybrid threat from countries such as Russia, Iran, and China, whose use of cyber tools, espionage, and influence operations they say threaten global stability.
Last Sunday, Britain imposed sanctions on several Russian media outlets for alleged information warfare and two Chinese technology companies for "extensive and indiscriminate cyber activities."
Metreweli is the first woman to hold the post since MI6 was founded in 1909.
Two other major British intelligence agencies have broken gender barriers in the spy world. MI5, the domestic security agency, was led by Stella Rimington from 1992 to 1996 and Eliza Manningham-Buller between 2002 and 2007. Anne Keast-Butler became head of the GCHQ electronic and cyber intelligence agency in 2023.
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