The Chief is appointed by the Foreign Secretary, to whom he directly reports.
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Since then, the office has had more public visibility, including a speech by John Sawers in 2010 described as the first of its kind.
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Among these offenses, according to Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip was "revealing the mysterious consonant by which the Chief of the Secret Service is known."
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He rose to become deputy to SIS chief Richard Dearlove, and was widely assumed to be in line for the top spot when Dearlove announced his departure in 2003.