Avoid facial disguises, carry loose change and be ready to make split-second decisions: just some of the advice Britain’s domestic spy agency gave recruits tailing subjects nearly a century ago.

MI6 and MI5, the UK’s domestic security ... paid almost 13 per cent lower than men. Within MI5 and MI6, women are employed as intelligence officers, agent handlers and surveillance operatives ...

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He is considered one of the most successful double agents of the Cold War period in British intelligence history. The MI5: Official Secrets exhibition opens at The National Archives this spring.

An undercover MI5 agent has told a court of how recordings were made of three men allegedly discussing ... at a park in Lurgan in December 2013. The security service officer also confirmed he ...

“It is a mistake to use men ... the security service. Following targets on foot, public transport and sometimes into restaurants or hotels, MI5 watchers have provided a crucial role to British ...

these were some of the tips given to rookie MI5 "watchers ... on suspected enemy agents. The guidance is contained in a booklet that was issued to all new spooks in the Security Service during ...

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 ...

An ordinary teenager from the suburbs of London spun fantasies in his mind that led to him spying for Iran and then pitching himself as a double agent to British security services before pulling ...