The Changing World: MI6: A Century in the Shadows


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MI6: A Century in the Shadows
	For most of its 100-year tenure, Britain's secret service has been shrouded in mystery. For this documentary produced by the BBC World Service, the BBC's Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera, was granted unprecedented access to the inner workings of the agency known as MI6.
FIRST HALF	Gordon Corera charts the beginnings of MI6, founded by Sir Mansfield Cumming, an eccentric and formidable figure known as 'C', who signed his name in green ink. Corera also examines the agency’s role during the two World Wars and details of some of the gadgets that any self-respecting agent could not do without.

SECOND HALF	Gordon Corera focuses this half hour on intelligence efforts during the Cold War. John Scarlett, the outgoing head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, tells Corera about undercover operations behind the Iron Curtain. We also hear from Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky about his reasons for coming over to the other side. John Scarlett Listen to Gordon Corera’s report on MI6 in the 21st century. The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, John Scarlett, talks for the first time about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MI6's role in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Gordon Corera

THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world.

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