{"id":10341,"date":"2025-06-16T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/britains-mi6-spy-agency-to-be-lead-by-first-female-chief\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:21:28","slug":"britains-mi6-spy-agency-to-be-lead-by-first-female-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/britains-mi6-spy-agency-to-be-lead-by-first-female-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s MI6 spy agency to be lead by first female chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&rsquo;s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, is getting its first female chief. The U.K. government announced on Sunday that Blaise Metreweli was appointed to the position &ldquo;at a time when the United Kingdom faces increased threats from our adversaries.&rdquo; Metreweli oversees technology and innovation in her current role as director general &ldquo;Q&rdquo; at MI6&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5352471-uk-mi6-first-female-chief\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&rsquo;s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, is getting its first female chief. The U.K. government announced on Sunday that Blaise Metreweli was appointed to the position &ldquo;at a time when the United Kingdom faces increased threats from our adversaries.&rdquo; Metreweli oversees technology and innovation in her current role as director general &ldquo;Q&rdquo; at MI6&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}