There is no evidence the security service, MI5, intentionally withheld documents from a major investigation into the agent in ...

An MI5 review into the failure by the spy agency to disclose information to the team investigating the British agent Stakeknife will be made public on Thursday. It emerged last year that MI5 had ...

Prince Andrew demanded a face-to-face meeting with Sir Ken McCallum, the director of the UK’s MI5 security service, after his longtime close confidant was accused of being a Chinese spy.

A battered leather briefcase left behind by Guy Burgess when he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among 20 objects from MI5's archives to go on display for the first time from Saturday.

Gerry Adams sues BBC over Spotlight investigation into the murder of MI5 agent Denis Donaldson Join the Irish Independent ...

From invisible ink in lemons to Cold War betrayals, MI5’s first public exhibition reveals spy stories and gadgets spanning 115 years of British intelligence.

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 ...

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found. The review was carried out following discovery of the material last year ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Agents suspected Muller of being a German spy but it was a humble lemon, on show in the "MI5: Official Secrets" exhibition, that brought him down. Muller claimed he used the fruit, found in his ...

They may be ‘vain creatures’, but a ‘properly balanced woman’ makes for a better spy because men are too conceited, according to an MI5 operations guide going on show for the first time.

MI5 files were not deliberately withheld from an investigation into the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, a review has found. The review was carried out following discovery of the material last year, ...