article_snippet: The Director General is being protected by an elite squad of bodyguards after receiving a chilling death threat over the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson.
article_snippet: The Mail on Sunday has learned that BBC's head of security put out an urgent appeal for ex-Special Forces personnel to take part in the top-secret operation to protect BBC boss Tony Hall, at a cost to licence payers estimated at more than £1,000 a day.
article_snippet: A security source told this newspaper: 'There was a sudden urgency on Wednesday to find an eight-man security team to protect the Director-General of BBC. '
article_snippet: On alert: the Director-General of the BBC is being protected by an elite squad of bodyguards .
article_snippet: The firm, which has 1,000 operatives from military, Special Forces and police backgrounds, charges £300 per man, per shift.
article_snippet: An insider said: 'With less than 12 hours' notice the close protection officers were asked if the close protection officers could go to the DG's house to protect him and him family.
article_snippet: On that basis, requests for close protection officers to make close protection officers available for The job were put out on Facebook pages and groups which are strictly for approved and highly qualified security personnel.
highlights_snippet: The Mail on Sunday's exclusive pictures show The Director General under close protection .
  
highlights_snippet: The Director General and The Director General wife were placed under guard at He and his wife