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.

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 ...

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 ...

The French interior ministry said on Tuesday that it would propose a ban on Legion X, a fan group for second-tier football club Paris FC, due to it being involved with serious violence for years.

A 110-year-old lemon that played a key role in espionage history is one of the star attractions of a London exhibition drawn from the files of British spy agency MI5.

The disgraced Duke of York, 65, was embroiled in yet another scandal when his former business adviser was sensationally ...

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 ...

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Guy Burgess's passport and briefcase left behind when he fled to Moscow in 1951 A battered leather briefcase left behind by Guy Burgess when he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among 20 objects from MI5 ...