Anne Keast-Butler: Britain appoints first woman to lead spy agency GCHQ

For the first time in more than a century, Britain’s cyber and signals intelligence agency GCHQ is going to be led by a woman. The appointment of Anne Keast-Butler, currently the deputy director general at the U.K.’s domestically focused intelligence service MI5, was confirmed by Foreign Secretary James Cleverley on Tuesday. Keast-Butler had been a

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