The British Secret Intelligence Agency, also known as MI 6, is now facing the situation of being "poached". The Australian 17 reported that more than 50 MI6 agents had intended to "serve" the Australian Secret Intelligence Agency.

The loss of intelligence personnel

The Australian Secret Intelligence Agency once "implanted" the recruitment notice in the headquarters of British MI 6, attracting British intelligence personnel to work in Canberra, occupying two middle management positions in the headquarters of Australian Secret Intelligence Agency/KLOC-0. Many middle-level officials in MI6 are "interested" in applying for the job.

An insider told The Australian that the recruitment of the Australian Secret Intelligence Agency attracted the attention of many British intelligence personnel, highlighting the "low morale" within MI6. Harvey, an intelligence analyst, said he was not surprised by the "brain drain" of MI 6. "They have reason to leave." Harvey said that intelligence personnel not only have limited salaries, but also often suffer from reputation damage due to prisoner abuse.

In addition, due to the shrinking of the government's financial scale, the budget allocation for MI6 in the next fiscal year may not be as beautiful as in the past. In the past fiscal year, the funding of MI6 has increased substantially, which is "generous" compared with other institutions. In addition, some insiders complain that the internal management structure of MI6, layoffs, early retirement age and other policies have left "limited" promotion space for intelligence personnel. In response to the escalating terrorist incidents in recent years, MI6 began to favor women, the disabled and ethnic minorities in the process of recruiting new people, especially those who can speak Persian, Arabic and Pashto. Due to the increasing demand for female agents, Paula Martin of the British House of Lords said, "When the image of Bond changes, we no longer need the image of a man who always carries a martini glass."

In order to recruit people with the ability to communicate with people from various cultural backgrounds, MI6 even advertised in The Times and The Economist in Britain. The recruitment target is a citizen with British nationality, and there is no special requirement for professional background. On the website made in earlier years, MI6 also launched online recruitment function, including an "intelligent recruitment system". Interested parties can log on to the website at any time and become new members of MI6 after a series of audits. Such an open recruitment of agents marks that MI6 has further weakened its mystery, which shows its thirst for talents. However, MI6 officials also stressed: "Our confidentiality has not changed." From the evening of February 23rd, 20 15, Al Jazeera and the British newspaper The Guardian published the contents of the disclosure one after another. The time span of leaked documents was from 2006 to 65438+ last February. This information includes detailed briefings written by agents of the National Security Agency of South Africa and internal analysis material "Action Target Analysis", as well as secret communications between South African intelligence agencies and CIA, British MI 6, Russian Federal Security Service, Israeli Mossad and some Asian intelligence agencies.

According to an intelligence report, British MI 6 turned to South African intelligence agencies for help to prevent them from recruiting North Korean spies.