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 John Scarlett |
LONDON — MI6 Chief Sir John Scarlett, who prides himself on his skills as a linguist, has given a black mark to a number of his spies for spelling mistakes that would shame a schoolboy, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Agents who are tasked to keep Britain safe from terrorists have littered the Secret Intelligence Service’s own website with a lexicon of spelling errors. The site is intended to attract would-be spies.
In a dressing down to his red-faced officers, Scarlett has threatened to send them back to MI6’s school for spies near Portsmouth on the south coast of England.
Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson said the school teaches the art of targeting a terrorist and running and recruiting informants who are prepared to give or sell secrets about their country to MI6.
“But spelling? I would have been failed at first interview stage if I couldn’t spell up to university entrance level,” said the astonished superspy who learned to speak four languages with MI6.
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Normally Scarlett leaves the MI6 website check to one of his officers. Last week he decided to do it himself.
The site is designed to tempt the superstars among those leaving college or university this summer to find a career in what is described as the “most demanding job in Britain – where accuracy is essential.”
Instead Scarlett, educated at Epson College, one of Britain’s top preparatory schools, and Magdalene College, Oxford – found the website riddled with spelling mistakes that would have horrified his own school tutors.
As he scrolled through the MI6 website he found a succession of mistakes. Among them:
- Chauffering, instead of chauffeuring.
- Saftely, instead of safety.
- Mutal, instead of mutual.
Describing her work, an administration officer code-named “Jennifer” wrote: “For the past two years I have been working Weapons on Mass Destruction (WMD) export controls within the Counter profileration department.” The correct spelling is proliferation.
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