MI6

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Review of MI6 worker Gareth Williams’ death finds no new DNA evidence
Code-breaker was found dead inside a padlocked holdall at his London flat in 2010

Caroline Davies

05, Feb, 2024 @3:45 PM

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Mike Sadler obituary
Last original member of the SAS who used the stars to navigate across the north African desert during the second world war

Michael Smith

14, Jan, 2024 @4:53 PM

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Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules
Palestinian national claims British intelligence services asked CIA to put questions to him while he was being tortured in ‘black sites’

Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

20, Dec, 2023 @12:43 PM

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Miscarriage of justice watchdog reviews murder conviction of ex-MI6 informant
Criminal Cases Review Commission re-examines case of Wang Yam, who was convicted of 2006 murder of Allan Chappelow in London

Duncan Campbell and Richard Norton-Taylor

14, Dec, 2023 @12:40 PM

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Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guantánamo detainee
Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri claim UK intelligence was ‘complicit in his ill-treatment’ by the US

Harry Davies Investigations correspondent

29, Oct, 2023 @5:09 PM

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The new queen of spy fiction: how Ava Glass went from murder reporting to the bestseller list
The author started out covering crime in the US before getting a close-up view of the British security services. She remembers her first dead body and a strange encounter with a fake friend

Elle Hunt

10, Sep, 2023 @1:30 PM

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Richard Osman ‘tapped on the shoulder’ at Cambridge by MI6 – but failed the test
Presenter and crime author says he interviewed for role of spy but ‘would have been terrible’

Kevin Rawlinson and Charlotte Edwardes

09, Sep, 2023 @7:00 AM

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UK government’s refusal to confirm Skripal spy role is ‘surreal’, lawyers say
Michael Mansfield KC criticises argument for restriction orders before inquiry into 2018 novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess

Steven Morris

06, Sep, 2023 @3:38 PM

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UK should finally acknowledge role in 1953 Iran coup, says David Owen
Former foreign secretary says doing so would benefit both reform movement in country and Britain’s credibility

Julian Borger in Washington

15, Aug, 2023 @4:02 AM

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‘Written out of the history books’: the British spy who planned Iranian coup
Norman Darbyshire had a modest upbringing but had a knack for adaptation and languages that helped him to make influential contacts

Julian Borger

15, Aug, 2023 @4:00 AM

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UK spy agencies want to relax ‘burdensome’ laws on AI data use
GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 propose weakening safeguards that limit training of AI models with bulk personal datasets

Harry Davies

01, Aug, 2023 @11:00 AM

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China complicit in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says MI6 chief
Sir Richard Moore says Xi Jinping’s regime has supported Vladimir Putin diplomatically and amplified ‘Russian tropes’ such as Nato being to blame

Helen Davidson in Taipei

20, Jul, 2023 @5:39 AM

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