Intel recruitment

Baby Bonds: Britain's top spy reveals teenage school leavers are being recruited to MI6 after the intelligence service cut its minimum age to 18 as espionage adapts to the technological revolution 

Sir Alex Younger has today revealed how teenagers are being recruited to MI6 as it cut its minimum age to 18 to attract the 'best talent' from across the country.

This unprecedented move by the Secret Intelligence Services comes amidst a background of sweeping technological and geopolitical change.  

By lowering the minimum age of employment from 21, MI6 hopes to capture the hearts and minds of a generation savvy with modern technology. 

SIS invited 30 teenagers from inner London into its Vauxhall Cross HQ to encourage school leavers to apply for a career in British intelligence.