Britain has announced that Richard Moore will soon take over as the new chief of its Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. What will this mean for MI6 and its closest foreign partner, the CIA?

For a start, Turkey-related national security issues will be in good hands. Both Moore and CIA Director Gina Haspel speak Turkish, and Moore served as British ambassador to Turkey between January 2014 and December 2017. Earlier in their careers, both Haspel and Moore served tours in Turkey as intelligence operations officers. The similarities don’t end here. Both chiefs are career intelligence officers possessing strong transatlantic links, with Haspel serving two tours as CIA station chief in London.