Stakeknife was linked to at least 18 murders while working as an Army agent within the IRA in the 1980s.

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found.

An MI5 review into the failure of British secret services to disclose information to the team investigating agent Stakeknife ...

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found.

Kenova, a major investigation into the operations of “Stakeknife”, thought to be the British Army’s top agent inside the IRA, ...

Undisclosed MI5 intelligence was not deliberately withheld from a £40 million (€46.6 million) investigation into the activities of the British army’s top spy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a ...

Chinese researchers will be granted access to NHS medical records despite MI5 fears that health data could be misused by Beijing. Western intelligence agencies have warned that China is amassing ...

But MI5 Director General, Sir Ken McCallum, last year cautioned that Beijing could pressure organisations and individuals "to carry out work on their behalf" if handed potentially sensitive data ...

Almost exactly a year ago, on April 23 2024, Northern Ireland chief constable Jon Boutcher headed to Westminster to answer ...

From the outset, MI5 is said to have assured Kenova that it did not have a specific file on Stakeknife. All it had, allegedly, were disparate intelligence reports. Apparently that no longer holds ...