MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service, is no longer relying purely on clandestine methods of recruitment as it expands its staff.
In the past, the intelligence service has been known to recruit graduates straight from Oxford and Cambrigdge on recommendations from professors.
The ads direct those interested in becoming agents, administrators, analysts, linguists and IT experts to a website, . They feature pictures of a series of exotic locations and a gunman holding an AK47, with the strapline 'MI6: The world's intelligence'.
The department took a step towards greater openness about what it does by launching the site last October.
However, it still retains its practice of accepting communications solely through the post.
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