Though many apply, only a few have the skills and patience to make it as a “watcher” an MI5 training manual published for the ...

MI5’s top interrogator was baffled by Kim Philby ... Philby, who was then a high-ranking MI6 officer, first came under suspicion in 1951 when two fellow Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and ...

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 ...

Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the ...

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 ...

A 17-page official MI5 guide on ‘observation’ declassified today reveals that bosses considered the ideal spy was ‘born and not made’, with many candidates lacking the patience required ...

Gary Oldman, who stars as grumpy yet gifted spy boss Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+ hit “Slow Horses,” has been recruited by the real MI5 – to narrate a Christmas poem. In collaboration with the ...

The double agent’s confession has been published in full for the first time in newly declassified MI5 files. After being recruited at Cambridge University in 1934, Philby joined MI6 – which ...

However, a Second World War guide produced by MI5 for prospective agents concluded that the ideal “watcher” was “born and not made”. The 17-page guide, which was compiled for “officers ...

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 ...