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Bill Burns and Richard Moore: Intelligence partnership helps the US and UK stay ahead in an uncertain world

Technological advantage is key to ensuring the special relationship maintains its lead
From left, CIA director Bill Burns and Richard Moore, chief of SIS
Bill Burns is director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Richard Moore is chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service

Two years ago, we celebrated 75 years of partnership; 75 years since the CIA was founded in 1947. But the bonds between US and UK intelligence go back even further, closer to the founding of SIS in 1909 when we first witnessed, together, the horror of state-on-state violence in Europe.

Today, after the closest of collaborations through the first world war, second world war and cold war, followed by a shared struggle against international terrorism, that partnership lies at the beating heart of the special relationship between our countries. We have no more trusted or esteemed allies.

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