Blaze Metroville made history when she was recently named as MI6's new director, becoming the first woman to lead the legendary British intelligence service in its 116-year existence.
However, a Daily Mail investigation has cast a dark shadow over this milestone appointment. German archival evidence reveals that the woman destined to head the agency that battled Nazi Germany is the granddaughter of Constantin Dobrovolsky, a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator infamously known as "The Butcher" for his savage wartime conduct. He served Nazi forces as "Agent Number 30" after abandoning the Red Army in 1941 to become Germany's primary intelligence operative in Ukraine's Chernihiv region.
This discovery carries particular weight given current geopolitical tensions, as the Kremlin attempts to legitimize its Ukrainian invasion through anti-Nazi rhetoric, transforming what should have been a triumphant moment into a complex diplomatic challenge.
Metroville's background includes an international upbringing in a polyglot household, anthropological studies at Cambridge, and a career spanning decades in MI6's most perilous assignments across Europe and the Middle East before advancing to senior MI5 leadership.
Active participation in Jewish extermination and property theft
German archival documents demonstrate Dobrovolsky's direct involvement in what he termed "the extermination of Jews" in correspondence with Nazi superiors. His operations included commanding a 300-strong Ukrainian police force that systematically "cleansed" 12 sub-districts, executing hundreds of Jewish civilians and Ukrainian partisans while systematically looting victims' possessions. The gravity of his crimes prompted Soviet authorities to post a 50,000-ruble bounty for his capture.
As Soviet armies advanced westward in 1943, Dobrovolsky orchestrated his family's evacuation, smuggling his wife Barbara and infant son (Metroville's father) to Germany before their eventual arrival in Britain. Barbara subsequently married David Metroville, a Georgian immigrant, in 1947, with their son adopting the Metroville surname while remaining seemingly unaware of his biological father's criminal wartime activities.
