Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified documents from MI5. The documents are part of a new exhibition on display at the ...

Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was secretly a Soviet spy during WWII.

App happy | The UK is considering making households who only use streaming services such as Netflix and Disney pay the BBC licence fee, as part of plans to modernise the way it funds the ...

Newly released MI5 files from the National Archives reveal that British intelligence monitored potential connections between ...

A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...

The documents, on display in the National Archives in Kew, West London, suggest the organisation was keen to dismiss any fantasies about the glamour of espionage.

The UK's terrorist threat level is currently classified as "substantial," meaning an attack is considered likely.

QUEEN Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for a decade about a Russian spy who infiltrated her household and was one of her most senior advisers, according to newly released MI5 files. In 1964, Sir ...

Keir Starmer says that terrorism has 'changed' and that the problem must be urgently addressed. But the system is fluid when ...

During the ongoing trial at the Central Criminal Court in London, new details emerged about the case involving Bulgarians ...

British counter-terrorism officers are on high alert amid concerns of a copycat attack in the wake of the New Orleans atrocity. Police and MI5 fear Islamic State supporters could be triggered into ...

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