The British government has distanced the incoming head of MI6 from her grandfather, who was reportedly a Nazi spy known as 'the butcher.' Blaise Metreweli will be the first woman to lead MI6 in its history, with her grandfather being a former Soviet Red Army defector turned Nazi informant.
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