In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen’s pictures and distinguished art historian, finally confessed he had ... the “Cambridge Five.” As a senior MI5 officer during the second world war ...

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 ...

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 ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for almost a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had confessed to being a Soviet spy, according to newly released MI5 files. Art historian ...

14 (UPI) --Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence ... told her about the infamous Cambridge Five member and art historian, Anthony Blunt, who was employed as the ...

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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 ...

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 ...