Britain Names New Director of MI6 Spy Agency
October 4, 2014
LONDON — Britain has named Alex Younger, an economics graduate and former soldier, as the next director of MI6, known officially as the Secret Intelligence Service, the British equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Younger, 51, who has worked with MI6 since 1991, will replace John Sawers, who spent most of his career as a top diplomat, serving as ambassador to Egypt and the United Nations, as well as the senior foreign-policy adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair.