Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Double agent Freddie Scappaticci (pictured at the 1987 funeral of IRA man Larry Marley) was involved in 14 executions and 15 ...

LONDON (AP) — A desiccated 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 MI5, Britain’s domestic ...

A briefcase abandoned by infamous Cambridge spy Guy Burgess as he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among the never-before-seen MI5 artefacts going on display at The National Archives in Kew, south-west ...

If you thought working for government spy agencies meant wearing a black suit, using top-notch spy gadgets, and speaking in code, well, that only happens in the movies. In reality, intelligence ...

MI5 turned a blind eye to “grotesque” crimes committed by a British spy who infiltrated the IRA during the Troubles, a damning report has found. Agent Stakeknife worked within the internal security ...

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It could have been a scene straight from a Cold Warthriller. First, Federico Varese, a young Oxford academic researching the Russian mafia, receives a mysterious letter from Britain while carrying out ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing a “staggering rise” in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes on U.K. soil by Russia and Iran, as the two states recruit criminals to “do their dirty work ...

LONDON — Britain is facing a “staggering rise” in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes on its soil by Russia and Iran as the two states recruit criminals to “do their dirty work,” the ...