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CIA director Bill Burns and MI6 chief Richard Moore are being interviewed together by Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, as part of the FT Weekend festival in London. Watch live here.
It is the first time the two heads have appeared together at a public event in the history of their agencies’ 77-year intelligence sharing partnership.
It also represents the latest move by the British and US spy agencies to come out of the shadows to better warn the countries they serve about the mounting dangers that the world faces.
The pair have written a joint column for the FT in which they warn that political volatility at home, Russia’s war in Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East, the rise of China and rapid technological change all mean the international world order is “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the cold war”.
