He laughs: “That’s just a bit of mischief I put in, but that kind of thing does happen.”So in modern parlance the security services are “woke” organisations? “They are, especially MI5 which has won a lot of awards recently for its diversity and inclusion,” Gardner explains. “GCHQ is incredibly inclusive.
MI6 are a little slower but they’re catching up.The chief of MI6 recently gave a public apology to LGBTQ+ people for the discrimination they had faced in the past, both in trying to get into MI6 to work for it, and those who were discriminated against in there.“The intelligence agencies, especially MI5, have made a big trawl for people from different communities so they can better understand what’s going on ‘upstream’ as they say.
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