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British secret service: MI6 advertises new informants in the Darknet
Published on September 19, 2025
Great Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency wants to recruit new spies on the Darknet.In the future, the Foreign Ministry in London said that potential informants should be able to get in touch with Great Britain via a secure news platform called Silent Courier.
The platform enables people who have confidential information on terrorism, enemy secret services or global instability to pass on their clues anonymously."Our virtual door is open to you," says a speech by the MI6 boss Richard Moore, which he wants to keep in Istanbul on Friday.Instructions for use is to be published via the official YouTube channel of the MI6.
Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said that the United Kingdom had to keep up in terms of growing threats: "Now we are supporting his efforts with the latest technology so that the MI6 can recruit new spies for Great Britain - in Russia and all over the world."
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This step takes place shortly before the farewell to Moore, which led the service for five years.Blaise Metreweli is supposed to follow him - the first woman at the head of the MI6.Moore is traded as a candidate for the office of the next British ambassador in the United States.
The initiative is similar to a campaign by the US foreign intelligence company CIA from 2023 when it specifically addressed Russian informants in social networks.