Man fathered by police spy wins payout: Scotland Yard agrees substantial compensation over undercover officer who had an affair with animal rights activist he was monitoring in the 1980s Bob Lambert posed as a radical to infiltrate animal rights groups in the 1980s He began a long-term relationship with ‘Jacqui’ and fathered a son known … Read more
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China’s New York consulate is a major spy hub after a New York City police officer was charged this week with spying for the Chinese government. Pompeo told the New York Post on Thursday that the Trump administration was keep tabs on Chinese diplomats in the United States and there could … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK AGENT SONYA by Ben Macintyre (Viking £25, 416 pp) Her scones were the envy of the Oxfordshire hamlet of Great Rollright, where the friendly woman known as Mrs Burton lived in a stone farmhouse. In her late 30s, she moved there with her three children and husband Len just after the … Read more
Winston Churchill’s ‘favourite spy’ Christine Granville gets a blue plaque at hotel where she was stabbed to death by a stalker Christine Granville was one of the most effective special agents to serve Britain The wartime spy is believed to have inspired Ian Fleming’s character Vesper Lynd Only 14% of over 950 English Heritage Blue Plaques … Read more
Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie reunite for a new spy thriller titled Five Eyes … after past work on classics such as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 02:49 BST, 4 September 2020 | Updated: 02:49 BST, 4 September 2020 Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie are … Read more
Dread and paranoia had settled over Prague like smog. Dissent was brutally crushed by the Communist regime, suspected traitors executed on the flimsiest of pretexts. But when MI6 officer Robert Gardner, having flown in from London, passed through the revolving doors of the famous Alcron hotel on February 20, 1951 – just as Winston Churchill, Charlie … Read more
Idris Elba is set to star in and produce a new untitled spy film set in Africa after Apple TV+ won the distribution rights By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 15:44 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 15:53 BST, 15 August 2020 Idris Elba is set to star in a new spy film, it was … Read more
Newly declassified CIA documents reveal that at the height of the Cold War, the United States planned to develop a fleet of bird-like drones in Area 51 that would be capable of spying on the Soviet Union. Code-named Project Aquiline, the nuclear-powered drones were designed to stay in flight for up to 30 days at … Read more
Looking back, not for a moment did it occur to me that my friend Liu from the Chinese Embassy was an agent of any description, let alone a spymaster. For one thing he seemed, well, too genial. And sometimes almost childlike. Whenever he took a sip of his drink, beer usually, he would shoot me … Read more
Boris Johnson could create a US-style ‘spy list’ to make it illegal to secretly work for a foreign country while in the UK as Labour accused the Government of a ‘chronic failure of leadership’ over stopping foreign interference in British democracy. The Prime Minister is pushing ahead with plans to bolster the UK’s counter-espionage laws … Read more