As a senior MI5 ... MI6 by Guy Burgess, where he became head of counterespionage operations during World War Two. In 1949, Philby was sent to Washington to become MI6’s chief liaison officer ...

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

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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.

Though many apply, only a few have the skills and patience to make it as a “watcher”, an MI5 training manual published for the first time by the National Archives reveals. Despite the rise in ...

Historian Christopher Andrew says in the official history of MI5 that the queen had previously ... continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

Philby gave it to his old MI6 friend, Nicholas Elliott, on 9 and 11 January 1963. Elliott, rather than an experienced MI5 interrogator, had been sent out from London to quiz Philby because it was ...