Abu Dhabi MI6 Station
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Posting may be light for the next week or two as I am taking my annual holiday in Spain. In the meantime, this subscriber profile should be topical as the major known overseas posting of incoming MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli. I hope to add more in future about the Abu Dhabi station’s signficance for operations across the Middle East and South Asia.
The British Embassy in Abu Dhabi (Ijanderson977, public domain).
MI6 involvement in what is now the United Arab Emirates dates back to the period of the British protectorate over the former Trucial States.
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