MI5
Stranger than fiction MI5 tales revealed in first National Archives collaboration
From Guy Burgess’s briefcase to microdots secreted in talc, an exhibition reveals remarkable items from the agency’s archives – and the extraordinary stories behind them
Esther Addley
02, Apr, 2025 @5:38 AM
Dr Ian Bownes obituary
Psychiatrist tasked with assessing the mental state of Irish republican prisoners in the Maze during the 1980s
Owen Bowcott
01, Apr, 2025 @4:46 PM
‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time
A new exhibition at the National Archives in London will reveal the extent of MI5 operation to expose the British double agent who was also Observer reporter
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent
22, Mar, 2025 @4:00 PM
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5
Peter Beaumont
21, Mar, 2025 @9:00 PM
MI5 officers lamented lack of guidance in child terrorism cases, emails reveal
Officer investigating Rhianan Rudd, 16, who killed herself, tells inquest of rise in vulnerable teens with far-right views and no national strategy
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter
07, Mar, 2025 @5:54 PM
MI5 gave courts false evidence about ‘abusive’ neo-Nazi agent, judge rules
Informant on far right was alleged to have attacked his partner but claimed his status put him above the law
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent
12, Feb, 2025 @7:24 PM
Actor Dirk Bogarde was ‘disturbed’ by KGB sting warning, declassified files reveal
MI5 told Bogarde in 1971 that he had been identified as ‘practising homosexual’ of interest by Russian spies
Caroline Davies
14, Jan, 2025 @12:01 AM
MI5 files suggest queen was not briefed on spy in royal household for nine years
Documents indicate monarch was informed Anthony Blunt was Soviet agent in 1973, though he confessed in 1964
Caroline Davies
14, Jan, 2025 @12:01 AM
Journalists who were unlawfully spied on have ‘no doubt’ UK reporters are still targeted
Belfast-based Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey won landmark victory that PSNI’s surveillance was unlawful
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
23, Dec, 2024 @7:00 AM
Lawyer accused of being Chinese spy in UK loses legal challenge
MI5 acted lawfully when it issued ‘interference alert’ about Christine Lee in January 2022, tribunal rules
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
17, Dec, 2024 @2:19 PM
MPs consider naming Chinese ‘spy’ linked to Prince Andrew
Allegations raise calls for caution in UK over bid to re-establish China links
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
15, Dec, 2024 @8:16 PM
Daniel Khalife: the spy who blew his own cover – and exposed gaping holes in UK security
When the ex-British army soldier was found guilty last week of passing secrets to Iran, it set off alarm bells over the military’s vulnerability to the threat of infiltration
Lizzie Dearden
30, Nov, 2024 @1:00 PM
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