The head of the Secret Intelligence Service tells potential spies 'our door is always open' and your 'secrets will always be safe with us'
"There are many Russians today who are silently appalled by the sight of their armed forces pulverising Ukrainian cities, expelling innocent families from their homes and kidnapping thousands of children," Sir Richard said.
He drew on the historic horrors inflicted on his host country in 1968 - when the then Soviet Union violently crushed an uprising known as the Prague Spring. "As they witness the venality, infighting and callous incompetence of their leaders - the human factor at its worst - many more Russians are wrestling with the same dilemmas and the same tugs of conscience as their predecessors did in 1968," he said."Our door is always open. We will handle their offers of help with the discretion and professionalism for which our service is famed.
He also highlighted a short-lived mutiny in Russia last month by the head of the mercenary group Wagner, saying in a question and answer session after the speech that he thoughtSir Richard said the rebellion had exposed weakness and division at the heart of the Kremlin and that Putin had been forced to cut a deal with his former prodigy to"save his own skin".
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