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Constantine Drombowolski (L), Blaise Metreweli (R).

The Foreign Office argued that “complex heritage” makes Blaise Metreweli a good fit to lead the spy agency.

The UK Foreign Office has defended Blaise Metreweli, the first woman appointed to lead the MI6 foreign intelligence agency, after media reports revealed that her grandfather fought for Nazi Germany.

The government argued that Metreweli’s controversial family background has only strengthened her resolve to protect the country from external threats.

On Thursday, the Daily Mail published a report revealing for the first time that Metreweli, who is set to become MI6 director in October, is the granddaughter of Constantine Dobrowolski – a Red Army defector who joined Hitler’s forces and was nicknamed “The Butcher” for atrocities committed in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

In a statement on Friday, the Foreign Office said: “Blaise Metreweli neither knew nor met her paternal grandfather. Blaise’s ancestry is characterized by conflict and division and, as is the case for many with Eastern European heritage, only partially understood.”

“It is precisely this complex heritage which has contributed to her commitment to prevent conflict and protect the British public from modern threats posed by today’s hostile states, as the next chief of MI6,” the statement continued.

According to the Daily Mail, Dobrowolski served in an SS tank unit and later joined the Nazi military police, which took part in the mass murder of Jews, partisans, and political prisoners.

Dobrowolski is believed to have been killed in 1943. His widow later moved to the UK, where she married Georgian-born David Metreweli.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Well they have had people in the job who have spied for the USSR and the US and Israel, so what’s wrong with the granddaughter of a good old boy?

  2. There is an inordinate number of people in high positions in the West with family links to Ukrainian ww2 Nazis. Could be all a coincidence though aye?

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