On the wall of his large office, the new chief of MI6 has hung a portrait of one of his intelligence service’s most important Cold War agents. The picture shows a foreigner who chose for moral reasons to turn against his own country and spy for Britain. MI6 has never publicly avowed him.
“He represents the sort of people who help us for the noblest of reasons,” Richard Moore says.
Moore, 57, is the 17th “C” in the 112 years of the Secret Intelligence Service — MI6’s actual name. He is still its only member whose identity is made public, and the organisation did not officially exist until 1992.
Richard Moore on the adrenaline rush of intelligence work
Yet today he continues his predecessors’ slow passage over the past decade towards a more public
