Occupational Health Advisor / Mi6

Here at SIS (or MI6 as you may know us) we are looking for a Registered Nurse with either a qualification in Occupational Health or a keen interest to develop into this fascinating and valuable area.

Your brief will be an interesting mix – from specialised health surveillance and pre-travel briefings and clearances, to referrals from senior staff and sickness absence management. You’ll also be on hand to answer ad hoc questions on every conceivable OH-related subject. For registered nurses without an Occupational Health qualification, we would be prepared to fund your study for a two-year part-time degree in Occupational Health.

Whatever your background, it’s vital that you’re a confident, resilient person – an outstanding negotiator and diplomat who enjoys keeping up-to-date with industry developments and has an unshakeable commitment to confidentiality. In short, you’ll need the strength of character to have a real impact on the Occupational Health of people across our organisation.

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‘Black’ ops killing off al-Qaida

LONDON – Members of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service, attached to a highly secretive unit called Task Force Black, have led Britain’s SAS and the U.S. Delta Force to kill what a secret intelligence report confirms as “hundreds of al-Qaida terrorists in the past two years and the capture of 3,500 insurgents,” according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The operations are described by Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq due to leave his post shortly, as a “phenomenal job which has been an immense help in Baghdad.”

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MI6 Officers Take a Shine to Private Sector

According to the latest report by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments published on July 22, no less than seven officials from Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6 ) quit their jobs last year to take up work with private companies.

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New documents shed light on Cold War spy

LONDON, Aug. 24: Forty-two years after his dramatic escape from British custody, the startling truth about one of Britain’s most notorious spies is revealed in secret home office documents and personal letters written by the MI6 double agent while he was on the run. In heartfelt correspondence with his mother, George Blake tells of his future plans for his family while security service memos expose the total intelligence failure leading up to his break-out and the subsequent British helplessness in trying to establish his whereabouts.
The documents, all released by the home office under the Freedom of Information Act, include a memo from Mr Roger Hollis, then head of MI5, written two years before Blake’s break-out, which reassures the government that the spy was being too closely watched for him to attempt an escape, as well as papers that show he was a model and trusted inmate who appeared to have come to terms with his exceptionally long prison sentence.
Blake, who was born in the Netherlands, was sentenced to 42 years’ imprisonment after a trial in 1961 at the Old Bailey in which he was found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act by betraying dozens of British agents working in West Asia, many of whom are thought to have been executed.

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I spy: How Ian Fleming made Station X immortal

STAGED plane crashes, a corpse laden with false documents and even a plot to blow up the Rock of Gibraltar: it may sound like the stuff of fiction, but these were just some of the real-life schemes cooked up by James Bond creator Ian Fleming while working for naval intelligence at Bletchley Park.

Now visitors to the historic site in Milton Keynes, which for many years was a top secret base known as Station X, can learn even more about the intriguing wartime links between Fleming and the shadowy complex, thanks to a new exhibition.

Called From Bletchley, With Love, the detailed display inside Hut 12 reveals the extent to which Fleming was involved with top-secret operations – something he could never reveal himself as he died in 1964, ten years before the ban on talking about Bletchley Park was lifted.

The exhibition, which has been put together by former codebreaker Mavis Batey, now 87, also shows how Fleming’s experiences would later prove a huge inspiration for his famous Bond novels.

Espionage expert Michael Smith, who has been invited to speak at Bletchley Park on Monday, says the exhibition lifts the lid on just how much Fleming took from his real-life experiences.

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How America squanders Britain’s gift

From The Sunday TimesAugust 24, 2008

How America squanders Britain’s giftRon Suskind
In the fall of 2002, confronting a dearth of solid intelligence on Iraqi WMD, the head of the CIA’s Near East Division turned to his British colleagues for help. The American government was basing its march to war on flimsy intelligence, and the reputation of his agency, the CIA, was at stake. The response by the CIA division chief, an agency veteran by the name of Rob Richer, is revealing – a commentary on the importance of the foremost transatlantic relationship. He ordered his 22 Middle East station chiefs to London, browbeat them about their lack of intelligence output and then brought in his counterpart at MI6, Michael Shipster, for a full day’s working session on Iraq.

Richer later explained the benefit of such contact, saying, “The Brits were much more cautious in terms of interpreting intelligence, which made it very, very worthwhile for me, because I had inherited a shop which had decided that we were going to war basically when the Bush administration came in.”

Just over a year after 9/11, the US government was cresting forward – recklessly, history would show – at a time when policy grew directly out of the political will of a crusading president. George W Bush and his White House viewed having to actually justify the war as a kind of inconvenience, a nuisance.

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‘From Bletchley, With Love’ Ian Fleming Centenary Exhibition

A ‘James Bond fun day’ is scheduled for Monday, 25 August at the Ian Fleming centenary exhibition, ‘From Bletchley, With Love’.

The exhibition, which officially opened on 24 July when HRH Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall made a visit to the location, highlights Fleming’s top secret wartime work as special liaison officer between Naval Intelligence and Bletchley Park.

Ian Fleming
The family friendly Bond day will feature several several 007-related events, reports the Bucks Free Press. These include an Aston Martin display (with Die Another Day’s Vanquish on show) and several spy workshops for the younger visitors.

A special flypast by a wartime Dakota, thanks to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, in tribute to Fleming’s centenary, will also be a highlight of the day.

Finally, the event rounds off with a talk from author Michael Smith, explaining the wartime links between Fleming, Bletchley Park and MI6.

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New MI6 recruitment site

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U.S. launch spy agency based on British MI5 ‘Spooks’ who will work inside the country to help war on terror

America has launched a new spy agency based on Britain’s MI5, it emerged on Sunday.

The new agency was ordered by President George Bush who made it clear after the 9-11 terror attacks in 2001 that he was a big admirer of the way MI5 and MI6 divide intelligence operations with ‘5’ working at home and ‘6’ abroad.

Presidential advisers are said to have used the BBC TV series Spooks, which is called MI-5 and has a cult following in the US, to hammer home the message that a domestic spy agency was vital for the war on terror.

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Britain recruiting gay spies: report

“This (move by MI5) is recognition that the establishment is changing and slowly becoming more reflective of wider society.”

Britain’s intelligence agencies have in recent years attempted to cast a wider net when it comes to recruiting — the country’s foreign intelligence service MI6 placed its first-ever advertisement for jobs in a newspaper in May 2007, and in recent years, it has launched its own website.

Separately, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain’s intelligence listening post, has embedded advertisements into popular video games in a bid to attract tech-savvy recruits.

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