2010 – Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer jailed for spying for Britain, is released and flown to the UK as part of a swap with Russian agents caught in the United States. He settles in Salisbury. March 3, 2018 – Yulia Skripal arrives at Heathrow Airport from Russia to visit her father … 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
A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more
Spies and hackers can eavesdrop on conversations from 82 feet (25 metres) away by analysing the vibration patterns in a hanging light bulb, a study has found. The ‘lamphone’ technique discovered by security experts from Israel needs only a laptop and gear — including a telescope and sensor — costing less than just £1,000. According … Read more
An intelligence report sent to the White House last week concluded coronavirus numbers coming out of China are fake China’s reporting on coronavirus is intentionally incomplete, three U.S. officials revealed in a Wednesday report, adding its government is underreporting statistics on both the death toll and number of cases. The intelligence community handed over a … Read more
US spies will use eavesdropping tools and undercover informants to monitor global spread of coronavirus amid ‘serious concerns’ it will explode in India and doubts over how Iran will cope with outbreak, source reveals Sources warn India’s available countermeasures are serious cause for concern The country’s population density increases the potential for the virus to spread … Read more
MI5 let their hair down with Strictly Come Dancing and Bake Off contests at London HQ to raise £300,000 for charity The intelligence officers called it Secretly Come Dancing and agents paired up MI5 also had a Bake Off event, named The Great MI5 Bake Off, it’s been revealed Details of the dancing competition emerged … Read more