A convicted British fraudster who featured in a Netflix documentary has been sentenced to six years in prison by a French ...

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MI5's stated aim is to protect the UK's citizens and interests against national security threats at home and overseas while MI6 (also known as SIS) gathers intelligence overseas in support of the ...

Following targets on foot, public transport and sometimes into restaurants or hotels, MI5 watchers have provided a crucial role to British intelligence for decades. During the Cold War ...

A woman who was allegedly abused by a suspected Security Service informant has called for an apology from MI5, it was reported.

The head of MI5 has serious questions to answer about his support for an agent accused of far-Right extremism and violence ...

Around the same time, a KGB defector told spooks that a young British actor had been targeted in a possible recruitment attempt in the Russian capital. MI5 thought this man might have been Bogarde ...