Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence agency, show the late Queen Elizabeth II was not ...

Despite advances in electronic surveillance, security service MI5 still relies on human ‘watchers’. Government documents ...

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

The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by ...

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 ...

Widening the definition of terrorism could overwhelm the police and MI5, the lawyer carrying out a review of the definition has warned. Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism ...

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 newly-declassified documents include details about some of the UK's most notorious spies.

Rookie wartime MI5 "watchers" were advised they needed to be prepared to offer a big tip if they had to tell a taxi driver to "follow that cab" when pursuing a suspect, newly declassified ...

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