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The UK's secret intelligence service MI6 has started using social networking site Facebook to recruit future spies and informers.

MI6's move to recruit through the popular online social site marks a shift in the agency's recruitment policy, which has traditionally targeted bright graduates from the country's top universities, like Oxford, Cambridge and London's Kings College.

A Foreign Office spokesperson claimed that the open recruitment campaign aims to pull in a wide variety of talent from different sources.

They said: "A number of channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organization. Facebook is a recent example."

"There has been a very good response so far," the spokesperson added.

MI6 dropped its elite university graduate recruitment programme in 2006 and began targeting would-be spies through newspaper adverts and websites.

In related news, the first operational spy to be interviewed on national television almost had his cover blown when his fake moustache came unstuck, reports the Guardian.

Filming of the interview had to be halted when the agent's stick-on moustache fell from his face as a result of the hot set lights used during the quizzing by BBC journalists, the paper states.

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