Boris Johnson could backtrack on the Huawei 5G deal after warning from spy chiefs over fresh security fears Intelligence agencies are reviewing advice given to No 10 amid concerns over new US sanctions A change of advice could force Boris Johnson to pull plans to use the firm’s kit in 35 per cent of the … Read more
Boris Johnson is on the brink of climbdown over his decision to allow Huawei to help build Britain’s 5G network over new security fears The climbdown comes after a growing rebellion on the Tory backbenches UK currently plans to use Huawei kit in 35 per cent of Britain’s 5G network The company’s link to Chinese … Read more
Billionaire boss of Le Monde newspaper, 52, admits he was a teenage spy who once hacked the mobile phone of President Mitterrand for his security service bosses Xavier Niel, 52, was caught hacking Canal Plus aged 17 after quitting education The Directorate for Territorial Surveillance hired him to harvest data on Renault He also hacked … Read more
Cold War spy satellite imagery is helping scientists track the decline of animals and their habitats in Kazakhstan over the past 50 years Images from the Cold War’s Corona programme imaged a region of Kazakhstan The photographs were declassified five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain Scientists have used them to track the impact of … Read more
A pack of Silverback Mountain gorillas in Uganda were caught for the first time on camera performing a supper serenade. Filmmakers captured the unique ritual by placing a robotic ‘spy’ that resembles a young gorilla deep in the jungle. The team designed the animatronic machine with realistic eye movements, as wild gorillas communicate with each … Read more
James Bond MUST be a man! Killing Eve’s MI6 spy boss Fiona Shaw insists job to replace Daniel Craig should not go to a woman By Chris Hastings Art Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 01:43 BST, 12 April 2020 In Killing Eve, she plays one of … 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
A council is using drones equipped with loudspeakers to catch people ignoring coronavirus isolation advice. Neath Port Talbot Council has teamed up with South Wales Police to roll out the tactic across the local area. The gadgets are being deployed to tourist hotspots and locations in Wales that are likely to see mass gatherings. But … Read more
Mistress of Spain’s former King Juan Carlos claims he hired a spy chief to employ a ‘threatening harassment campaign’ against her after she fell out of favour with the family Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was a lover of Spains’s former King Juan Carlos She claims former head of country’s National Intelligence Centre harassing her Says he … Read more
‘It’s factory fresh’: Soviet spy radio that was buried in a former forest in Germany 30 years ago is discovered in mint condition by stunned archaeologists Soviet spy radio is found just six miles from military base storing nuclear missiles The radio was found in woodland near Cologne in what was old West Germany Archaeologists who … Read more