He was nicknamed “The Butcher”: the grandfather of the future chief of Mi6 was a Nazi spy

The paternal grandfather of the future head of British external intelligence, the MI6, has just appointed this position, was a nazi spy deserter of the Russian army of Ukrainian origin, says the tabloid The Daily Mail.

Blaise Metreweli, 47, was designated in mid -June to become the first woman to direct the Secret Intelligence Service. Few things have been revealed by their past or personal life, when most of his career has passed in the anonymity of intelligence services.

Contributed “personally” to the “extermination of the Jews”

According to a Daily Mail survey published on Friday, June 27, which raised the trail of its origins through archived documents in the United Kingdom and in Germany in particular, its grandfather was called Constantine Dobrowolski and was during World War II a jealous Nazi spy, which operated in Ukraine.

Participated in the Russian Army, was sent to the front from which it joined the Nazi Germany camp. Nicknamed “The butcher” or “Agent No. 30” by the commanders of Wehrmacht, the army of the third Reich, he contributed significantly “personally” to the “extermination of the Jews”, as he said in letters exchanged with his superiors, found by the newspaper.

His wife fled in the United Kingdom during the war with the future father of his two -year -old son -which Metreweli, where she married in 1947, taking the name of her new husband David Metreweli.

According to the BBC, Constantine Dobrowolski also appears in a list of people sought by the KGB in the 1960s as foreign intelligence agents and “traitors to the homeland.”

“It is this complex inheritance that contributed to its commitment”

Contacted, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has the supervision of the MI6, said that the latter “has never known or known his paternal grandfather.”

“Blaise’s ancestry is marked by conflicts and divisions and, as is the case of many people of origin from Eastern Europe, it is only partially known,” he added.

“It is precisely this complex heritage that contributed to its commitment to prevent conflicts and protect the British population from modern threats emanating from hostile states,” said the ministry.