The Grandfather of the Brilliant New Head of MI6 Was a Nazi Spy Chief

When Blaise Metreweli was announced as the next head of MI6 it was immediately apparent she had long been groomed for the top.

The woman set to become the first female spy chief in the agency’s 116-year history had all the right attributes. . .

From the age of 22, her name was only mentioned in public when receiving honours ‘for services to British foreign policy’ and in a civil service notice documenting a bland economics posting to Dubai. Despite entering her 20s in the Wild West early days of social media, there is no trace of her online. . .

Archives in Germany reveal that the woman who from September will take charge of the nation’s secrets is the granddaughter of a notorious Nazi collaborator who spied and killed for Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

We can disclose that Ms Metreweli’s grandfather was Constantine Dobrowolski, a Ukrainian dubbed ‘The Butcher’ who defected from the Red Army to become the Fatherland’s chief informant in the region of Chernihiv in Ukraine. (Read more from “The Grandfather of the Brilliant New Head of MI6 Was a Nazi Spy Chief” HERE)

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