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In the autumn the new head of the famous British secret service MI6 will be Richard Moore — personnel scout, diplomat, and scholar of Turkish language and a graduate of Oxford and Harvard. Moore came to exploration in the late 1980s and since then has combined a career as a scout and diplomat, served as Ambassador of her British Majesty in Turkey and the political Director of the foreign and Commonwealth office.This week it announced the appointment of the head of the Secret intelligence service (MI6) — foreign intelligence service of great Britain — Richard Moore. In the fall he will replace on this post of Alex Younger, who led MI6 c 2014. How to write the British media, one of the tasks of Moore will be the reorientation of MI6 with fighting terrorists-Islamists that was one of the main tasks of the security services for many years, to counter threats from China and Russia. Another task could be the improving technological capabilities of MI6 in the conditions when technology and big data Analytics is becoming increasingly important, while maintaining the traditional benefits of British intelligence.57-year-old Richard Moore was born in Libya, he studied philosophy, politics and Economics at Oxford University and at the Kennedy scholarships, provided to graduates of British universities went to Harvard. In 1987, at the age of 24 he entered the service in MI6, and, as noted in the statement about his appointment, reached there positions Director. Technically, going from MI6 to the foreign Ministry and on the contrary, he hardly even changed the Secret intelligence service, aka MI6, formally subordinate to the Ministry of foreign Affairs. Some time, Moore held the position of Deputy national security adviser in the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers.In 2014 Moore, is fluent in Turkish, became the British Ambassador to Turkey. He held this post until 2017, so that at the time of his tenure, came the coup d’état of the summer of 2016. As the papers say, Moore, who believed that Britain should act as a sharp condemnation of the coup participants, quickly assessed the situation: a few days after the events he organized a visit to Turkey first Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of great Britain Alan Duncan, who expressed their solidarity with the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This gesture has strengthened the UK’s position in the eyes of Erdogan, especially as other Western governments reacted to the coup attempt not so fast and in a hurry to condemn its participants.Moore and his wife Maggie was a prominent figure in diplomatic circles in Turkey. Wife of Richard Moore, herself almost blind, was organized in Ankara charity project for the training of guide dogs.Moore earned fame in that period, among other things, for its humorous tweets. So, one of the turetsseveral Newspapers blamed the militants for bombing certain “British agent” and illustrated the article with a photograph of actor Daniel Craig in role of James bond. Responding to this accusation, Moore wrote on Twitter: “No, I don’t think so… someone please tell them that James bond is a fictional character”. In recent years, Moore has served as Director for political Affairs in the foreign Ministry. “It is a joy and an honor that I was asked to return to the Service to lead it,” said Sam Moore after his appointment, traditionally called “C” (from Chief).Nothing unexpected in the resignation of predecessor Richard Moore, Alex Younger, was not. Usually C directs the intelligence for five years, but in the case of Younger, the deadline was due to “Breccia” extended for another year. For the same reason, incidentally, with the retirement pin and the General Director of the counterintelligence service — MI5. Appointment to the post of head of MI6 Richard Moore it was not as obvious as writing in the British newspaper, the post had three or four candidates. Among them was Thomas Hurd — Director of the office for security and counter-terrorism, and the son of the Minister of foreign Affairs in the 1990s, Douglas herd, who studied at Eton and Oxford at the same time Prime Minister of great Britain. It was named as the most likely successor to Alex Younger. Another candidate was Karen pierce, UK Ambassador to the US, previously represented the country at the UN. Nevertheless selected was Moore, who, according to The Guardian, can be particularly useful just as a man who knows the intelligence work from various sides — as a human intelligence officer he knows that service is necessary from the government to carry out its work as a diplomat and senior government official — he is aware of the fact that the intelligence the government expects.Yana Christmas