MI5 burgled my flat in hunt for mole who handed me secret documents, says former Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd Elfyn Llwyd found hole cut in his bathroom ceiling and paper taken from his flat Documents marked ‘from a friend’ enabled him to embarrass John Redwood Break-in of Plaid Cymru MP’s home happened during John Major’s … Read more
MI5 burgled my flat in hunt for mole who handed me secret documents, says former Tory MP Elfyn Llwyd Elfyn Llwyd found hole cut in his bathroom ceiling and paper taken from his flat Documents marked ‘from a friend’ enabled him to embarrass John Redwood Break-in of Plaid Cymru MP’s home happened during John Major’s government … Read more
Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi was brought to the attention of M15 on at least 18 occasions before the 2017 terror attack, a public inquiry has heard. Security services received their first alert about him in 2010, and he was made a ‘subject of interest’ in 2014 but the file was dropped four months later. … Read more
MI5 are to be granted tough new powers to make the UK a harsher environment for Kremlin spies to operate in after a damning report by MPs said the Government ‘took its eye off the ball.’ In a devastating and long-awaited report, intelligence and security committee said the UK ‘badly underestimated’ the Russian threat as … Read more
Press watchdog’s offshoot funds website accused of publishing conspiracy theories about terror attacks – including one suggesting MI5 may have arranged the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) handed grant to 5Pillars this year 5Pillars ran pieces questioning MI5’s alleged links to murder of Lee Rigby in 2013 PINF is … Read more
MI5 has appointed its youngest-ever director general – but the intelligence agency has refused to reveal the spy chief’s age. Ken McCallum will become director general of the security service when he takes over the top job from Sir Andrew Parker next month. Mr McCallum, who led the investigation into the attempted assassination of former Russian agent … Read more