MI6: Veteran Intelligence Officers Being Asked to Stay Beyond Retirement
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC.com, reports that:
When 007 hits 65, should he be deep-sixed?More here.
No, say British intelligence chiefs, who want their older officers to keep working, even if it means Her Majesty's secret service has spies who hobble in from the cold.
Lawmakers disclosed Thursday that veteran intelligence operatives are being asked to keep working after their usual retirement date to tackle an unrelenting threat from terrorism.
Britain's veteran spies — like all senior government staff — must step down at the age of 65, according to government policy — but are instead being kept in their posts as exceptions to the rule.
In testimony to lawmakers published in a new report, the head of Britain's overseas intelligence agency MI6, John Scarlett, said the knowledge and skills of veterans is crucial to his agency's work.
posted by Fergie @ 3/05/2009 10:03:00 PM
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