UCD SPIRe Visiting Speakers Seminar Series

UCD SPIRe VISITING SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES

Dirk Haubrich

University of Oxford

will speak on

Friday, November 30th

on

The Social Contract and the Three Stages of Terrorism:
Democratic Society in the UK after 9/11 and 7/7


The seminar will take place in Room G317, the Newman Building, UCD at 4 p.m

(post amended accordingly to the comment below-John 10/12/2007- 13:19)

007 association gives MI6 recruitment headache

The success of the James Bond movies has given the British Secret Intelligence Service a recruitment headache – too many cranks want to join MI6.

"I think it gives people a false impression of what working for the organisation is actually like," the head of MI6 recruitment – named only as "Mark" – told BBC Radio One's Newsbeat programme on Monday.

"So it does tend to turn up quite a lot of thrill seekers and fantasists and we're really not interested in them".

As well as dismissing the notion that spying was a never-ending life of fast cars, fast women and shaken not stirred Martini cocktails, "Mark" was keen to demolish another myth surrounding MI6.

"We don't have a licence to kill – we don't carry Berettas – that's simply not true."

Source: Stuff.co.nz