The headquarters of Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 on the banks of the River Thames in London, are seen in this June 4, 2003, file photo. British lawmakers disclosed Thursday March 5, 2009, that veteran intelligence operatives are being asked to keep working after their usual retirement date to tackle an unrelenting threat from terrorism. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)From Yahoo News/AP:
LONDON – When 007 hits 65, should he be deep-sixed?
No, say British intelligence chiefs, who want their older officers to keep working, even if it means Her Majesty's secret service has spies who hobble in from the cold.
Lawmakers disclosed Thursday that veteran intelligence operatives are being asked to keep working after their usual retirement date to tackle an unrelenting threat from terrorism.
Britain's veteran spies — like all senior government staff — must step down at the age of 65, according to government policy — but are instead being kept in their posts as exceptions to the rule.
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My Comment: British intelligence wrote the book on 20th century intelligence and counter-intelligence. In today's world, the CIA, Russian intelligence .... all of the world's serious intelligence organizations first developed using the template of the U.K.
To see the U.K. intelligence community as a shadow of what it once was .... sigh .... welcome to the 21rst century.
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