Topic: John Sawers

AFP Global Edition | 2009-07-05 17:00:34

Photographs and personal details about the next head of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service, John Sawers, were removed on Sunday from social networking website Facebook after they were published by a British newspaper. The Mail on Sunday newspaper had printed pictures and family information which it had obtained from Facebook pages attributed to his wife Lady Shelley Sawers. "The ...

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AP News | 2009-07-05 10:43:29
Double-o oops: Wife of new British spy chief puts family details on Facebook

He's the spy who came in from the beach. Holiday snapshots and family details about the newly appointed head of Britain's MI6 intelligence agency have been removed from a Facebook page after a newspaper told the government about them. Pictures from the social networking Web ...

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AP News | 2009-06-16 15:28:27
Britain appoints Iran negotiator as new chief of its overseas spy agency MI6

Britain's international spy agency has a new chief — a top U.N. diplomat who had a senior role in talks about Iran's disputed nuclear program. John Sawers will take up his new post in November, the prime minister's office said in a statement Tuesday ...

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AFP European Edition | 2009-06-16 15:00:29

Britain's ambassador to the United Nations was on Tuesday named as the new head of the MI6 foreign intelligence service -- a figure who is traditionally known by his James Bond-style moniker "C." John Sawers will take over at MI6, or the Secret Intelligence Service, in November, replacing John Scarlett who has spent more than five years in the ...

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