A convicted British fraudster who featured in a Netflix documentary has been sentenced to six years in prison by a French ...

Details of MI5’s involvement emerged during a hearing of a Northern Ireland Affairs Committee into press freedom at ...

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the ...

The ‘stop and search’ operation came as it was reported that MI5 officers were deployed in west Belfast ahead of Mr ...

Though many apply, only a few have the skills and patience to make it as a “watcher”, an MI5 training manual published for the first time by the National Archives reveals. Despite the rise in ...

Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified documents from MI5. The documents are part of a new exhibition on display at ...

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 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 ...

MI5 built a case against an alleged Chinese spy who befriended Prince Andrew after a Mail on Sunday exposé, newly released documents reveal. An exclusive investigation by this newspaper in 2020 ...

Described as “the ultimate Walter Mitty character” by police, Daniel Khalife was a normal boy who spun fantasies in his mind ...

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Rookie wartime MI5 "watchers" were advised they needed to be prepared to offer a big tip if they had to tell a taxi driver to "follow that cab" when pursuing a suspect, newly declassified ...