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Gurpreet Singh Johal wants to know if stops are linked to his efforts to find out whether UK intelligence played a role in sibling’s arrestThe brother of Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh jailed in India, has written to the Home Office to ask why he i…
Former director general died on Sunday night ‘surrounded by her beloved family and dogs’Stella Rimington, the first female director of MI5 and the first head of the domestic spy agency to be publicly named, has died aged 90.She died on Sunday night “su…
Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in Guantánamo inmates caseThe UK government has admitted its intelligence agencies were “too slow” to realise the CIA was mistreating prisoners in its post-9/11 torture progr…
Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatmentThe UK government’s decades-long efforts to keep details of its intelligence agencies’ involvement in the CIA’s notorious post-9/11 torture programme hid…
Mark Rowley, Met commissioner, had said plans for England and Wales were made ‘without any analysis of the impact on policing’The justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has hit back at the UK’s most senior police officer in a row over the impact of allowi…
Mark Rowley joins head of MI5 and National Crime Agency in letter to justice ministry to say public could be at risk Britain’s most senior police officer has criticised ministers for failing to assess the impact on forces of its plans to release prison…
New work says novelist, who was a censor during second world war, may been employed to look for coded messagesIt is an irony that she herself would have revelled in: Barbara Pym, the author who punctured the social strictures of 20th-century Britain, w…
From Guy Burgess’s briefcase to microdots secreted in talc, an exhibition reveals remarkable items from the agency’s archives – and the extraordinary stories behind themThe agency that would become MI5, originally known as the Secret Service Bureau, em…
A new exhibition at the National Archives in London will reveal the extent of MI5 operation to expose the British double agent who was also Observer reporterSecret surveillance of Britain’s notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first…
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5Oleg Gordievsky obituaryOleg Gordievsky, the UK’s most significant cold war double agent inside the KGB, has died at his home in Surrey aged 8…