FREED gangster Liam Byrne has been mockingly branded an MI5 agent after his release from prison, we can reveal. Byrne was taunted as a “rat” on social media ­platforms following his release from ...

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

Recently released MI5 files reveal confessions from Britain's notorious double agents, including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt, who spied for the Soviets. These declassified documents, made public by ...

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

Avoid facial disguises, carry loose change and be ready to make split-second decisions: just some of the advice Britain’s domestic spy agency gave recruits tailing subjects nearly a century ago.

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

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 ...

Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double ...

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 ...

After 34 hours of taped conversations in 4 days, Philby defects to the USSR and Elliott is later interrogated by MI5 agent Lily Thomas (Anna Maxwell Martin), a rare fictional character in the show ...

Then the American Michael Straight told the FBI he'd been recruited by Blunt himself as a Russian agent. In April 1964 the MI5 interrogator Arthur Martin confronted Blunt, and promised him ...