British intelligence MI6 for the first time in its history will weaken the requirements for candidates: now they will hire foreigners as spies as well. People with a different background and second citizenship will be recruited to increase diversity, 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, while others will have to give up a second passport.
A source in the intelligence ranks 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 create a work collective “with a variety of thinking (…), 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. Annabel Goldie, Secretary of Defense of Great Britain, announced this.