Half a century ago, KGB agent Gerontiy Lazovik recruited an ASIO spy to sell state secrets to the Soviet Union. But this ...

Jonathan Watts relates the extraordinary life of scientist, engineer, Gaia theorist and spy, Englishman James Lovelock.

A former civil servant claims he developed a rare terminal cancer because he was exposed to deadly asbestos dust while working at MI5's London headquarters. Stuart Beaton, 61, from Croydon ...

Stuart Beaton, who was diagnosed with lung cancer, says in a lawsuit that he was forced to work in a building contaminated with asbestos A retired civil servant who worked at MI5’s headquarters ...

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Though many apply, only a few have the skills and patience to make it as a “watcher”, an MI5 training manual published ... at the name or address of a letter or telegram.

As thousands of FBI employees brace for possible political retribution from the Trump administration, one special agent ...

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 ...

these were some of the tips given to rookie MI5 "watchers". Their job was to covertly tail and report on suspected enemy agents. The guidance is contained in a booklet that was issued to all new ...

A solicitor who acts for a former career criminal who says he was an MI5 hitman during the Troubles believes his account is credible. Kevin Winters, of KRW Law, was speaking as it emerged former ...

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 ...

Actor Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” sting by the KGB, newly-declassified files reveal today. The intelligence documents released to the ...