The National Archives has released declassified MI5 files, including the confession of a civil servant who worked in the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Foreign Office in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s – and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy ...

The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain's National Archives. They shed new light on a spy ring linked to ...

Declassified documents also reveal spy agency’s fears of KGB sting on actor Dirk Bogarde A photo of Anthony Blunt inside an MI5 file. Photo: PA More than 100 MI5 files have been declassified for ...

Newly released MI5 files reveal Queen Elizabeth II wasn't informed about her Surveyor of Pictures, Anthony Blunt's double life as a Soviet spy to avoid causing her distress. Blunt confessed in 1964 ...

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A good exclusive from Connla Young in from the Irish News: An English career criminal has claimed he was recruited to murder five people on behalf of MI5 in the early days of the Troubles. The ...

Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal household member Anthony Blunt was actually a Soviet double agent. According to the BBC ...

The files about Anthony Blunt, one of the late monarch's most senior advisers, were part of a trove of MI5 intelligence agency files that were declassified by Britain’s National Archives on Tuesday.

Jan. 14 (UPI) --Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence agency, show the late Queen Elizabeth II was not informed for almost 10 years that a member of her staff had ...