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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The manual gives instructions on preferred appearances, disguises and how to follow targets – but warns against fake moustaches Spies have long been famed for their elaborate disguises, which ...

FILM star Dirk Bogarde was investigated by spies at MI5 as they thought he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the Russians, newly-declassified files show. Documents released ...

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