Concerns have been raised about the role of MI5 operations directed against journalists and the ‘inability’ of a PSNI-linked ...

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

Stuart Beaton, who was diagnosed with lung cancer, says in a lawsuit that he was forced to work in a building contaminated with asbestos ...

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.

Court says Khalife, who previously escaped from jail, passed information to ‘enemy state’ for more than two years.

The teenager was referred to the programme three times, with officers receiving information about his interest in school shootings, the London Bridge attack, the IRA, MI5 and the Middle East.

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the late queen herself was not officially told for nearly nine years.

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in a bid to force MI5 and the police to destroy a series of bombshell documents they had downloaded from his electronic devices. It led to the UK authorities disclosing to him the 'open source ...

Some MI5 material relating to its involvement with a teenager who was charged with terrorism before taking her own life is being "withheld" from her inquest but is "not a cause for concern", a hearing ...

MI5 has circulated a warning to MPs and peers regarding a female ... Ms Lee is reportedly involved in the China Overseas Friendship Association and the British-Chinese Project. She is also listed as a ...

Around the same time, a KGB defector told spooks that a young British actor had been targeted in a possible recruitment attempt in the Russian capital. MI5 thought this man might have been Bogarde ...