MI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, finds peer review

UK’s Secret Intelligence Service described as having ‘a taste for dirty tricks’ and ‘extraordinary’

MI6 has been ranked as the most powerful foreign intelligence service in Europe ahead of France and the Netherlands, according to a peer review.

The British intelligence agency scored 251 points in the research and was commended for its expertise in recruiting high-level informants and penetrating the ruling elites in Russia, China, Iran and Turkey, according to the review by 60 professionals from 25 countries.