For the first time in its history, British intelligence MI6 will weaken the requirements for candidates: now foreigners will also be hired as spies. People with a different origin and second citizenship will be hired for a change, according to The Times.
A UK passport is still required to apply, but those born in other countries will now be considered. For some positions, dual citizenship will be allowed, others will have to give up a second passport.
A source in the ranks of the intelligence said that the presence of people of different nationalities in the personnel will make the work of MI6 more effective. The goal of this step is to recruit people from as wide a circle as possible and to create a work collective “with a diverse mindset (…), and not one where everyone thinks in the same way.”
In August last year, it became known that secret agents of MI6, 60 years later, will again receive a license to kill the country's enemies. This was stated by the British Defense Secretary Annabel Goldie.
