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DIRECTOR GENERAL WINS PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD (09.03.07)
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the Director General of the Security Service, has been given the Outstanding Achievement award in a competition run by parliamentary publisher Dods and financial institution Scottish Widows. Aimed at encouraging the engagement of women in politics, the civil service and community leadership, the scheme celebrates women leaders in society.
NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL ANNOUNCED (07.03.07)
Dr. John Reid, the Home Secretary, has announced that Jonathan Evans will become the Security Service's new Director General. He will succeed Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller on 21 April 2007 as the Service's sixteenth Director General. Since 2005 Jonathan Evans has served as the Security Service's Deputy Director General. Prior to that, the main focus of his work has been on counter-terrorism, both domestic and international. He served as the head of international counter-terrorism investigations from 1999 to 2001, and was appointed director of international counter-terrorism only ten days before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Since then he has played a leading role in tackling the threat of al Qaida and related terrorist networks. For further biographical information on Jonathan Evans, please click on this article's headline.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES RELEASE SECURITY SERVICE FILES (02.03.07)
268 historic Security Service files have been released today by the National Archives, adding to the more than 3,000 files already on public display. The majority of the files cover the Second World War, but there are a considerable number of others covering the inter-war and post-war periods. Highlights include files on the British atom spy Alan Nunn May; the writers W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood; the anti-Nazi movement in Germany; and the suspected Communist saboteur John Salisbury. Please click on the headline to find out more.