Jonathan Rugman
We must face down Putin threat with power, says former MI6 chief
The UK’s emphasis on Islamist terrorism has meant it has ignored the traditional threat from nation states like Russia, according to a former head of MI6.
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Daily Express journalist was Soviet spy
A British journalist working for the Daily Express newspaper is said to have leaked highly sensitive secrets to the Russians during the Second World War.
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Jonathan Rugman
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Can any security service stop terror attacks?
Australia, Britain and France have been hit by terrorists previously known to the authorities. Are the security services letting us down, or do we have unrealistic expectations of what they can do?
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Breaking the code again – 70 years after Enigma
Ahead of the premiere of The Imitation Game, the story of codebreaker Alan Turing, former MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett compares modern code-breaking with the challenges of the Enigma machine.
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Security services deal with ‘100 terror threats per week’
The UK head of counter-terrorism says British security services are now dealing with 100 potential terror offences each week, with more than half involving referrals into de-radicalisation programmes.
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In from the cold: new Guy Burgess voice recording
Exclusive: a recording of the voice of Guy Burgess – the most colourful and notorious of the cold war spies – has come to light thanks to a freedom of information request to the FBI.
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Why big business and the NSA sift through your data patterns
“Pattern-of-life” analysis has emerged as a new buzz term in revelations about the National Security Agency. But what is it? And how does it connect shopping with spying?
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Simon Israel
Death of spy Gareth Williams ‘probably’ an accident
Police say there are no further active lines of inquiry and still can’t fully explain how Mr Williams got into the bag and locked it without leaving traces of DNA or hand prints on the bath.
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Simon Israel
Gareth Williams: Scotland Yard to rule out foul play
Contrary to a coroner’s findings, detectives are now convinced it was the last act of the GCHQ codebreaker himself, whose passion for escapology led to this tragic end.
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Spy chiefs: al-Qaeda ‘lapping up’ Snowden leaks
Revelations about British and American surveillance operations have played into the hands of terrorists who are “rubbing their hands with glee”, the heads of Britain’s intelligence agencies tell MPs.
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Tinker, Tailor… the spy chiefs on show for the first time
How much do we know about the spymasters who stepped out of the shadows to face the television cameras? Channel 4 News has the scoop on the snoopers.
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Spending review: Osborne announces where axe will fall
Chancellor George Osborne tells MPs Britain will have to endure another £11.5bn of cuts, with further pain for public sector workers. But infrastructure spending will receive a boost.
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Germany warns UK on the size of Big Brother
Germany’s justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, has written to Whitehall amid concerns over the scale of the UK’s domestic spying programme. Katie Razzall reports.
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Drones case heads to appeal after court defeat
A Pakistani man who tried to force the British government to reveal whether it provides intelligence for US drone strikes loses his high court bid but plans to appeal.
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Litvinenko ‘was an MI6 agent’
The Russian government was involved in the murder of the former spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was working for MI6 and Spanish secret services at the time of his death, a coroner has heard today.
