MI5 has shared a picture from the lobby of its London headquarters in its first post on Instagram. The secret service uploaded a shot of the inside of Thames House on Millbank on Thursday afternoon. It said @mi5official will ‘bust popular myths about its work, provide explainers for intelligence terminology, promote career opportunities and bring … Read more
MI6 is recruiting foreign-born spies for the first time in bid to increase diversity among its secret agents Recruits will no longer need to have been born in the UK to apply for roles at MI6 Whitehall source claimed diversification would make the agency ‘more effective’ However, any dual citizens may be asked to give up … Read more
Declassified CIA file reveals that US spies believed that Soviet doctors had ‘perfected’ Extra-Sensory Perception in the 1980s and could transmit thoughts and feelings to subjects An April 1991 memo detailing Soviet ESP experiments has been declassified The memo was released in November and published online on Monday It shows how CIA agents believed Soviet … Read more
What time is it in this photo? CIA’s latest test for budding spies asks them to tell the time using just visual clues CIA released a picture depicting a wintry scene asking people to tell the time The illustration contains all the elements of the perfect winter snapshot Most respondents played along, but some asked … Read more
I spy with my little eye: CIA releases two spooky scenes and asks wannabe spies to spot the difference ahead of Halloween CIA released a picture depicting Halloween asking people to spot the difference The illustration contains all the elements to make the perfect spooky scene Most respondents played along, but some asked whether there … Read more
Eagle-eyed Twitter users beat the CIA at its own game AGAIN – spotting as many as 16 differences between two images used to test their tradecraft CIA challenged Twitter followers to find 11 differences between photos Tuesday On Wednesday people said they’d found more with one social media user saying there were 13 differences and … Read more
Who needs James Bond when you have The 355? Monday night saw the drop of the action-packed first trailer for the spy caper The 355, which stars Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Penelope Cruz and Bingbing Fan as a group of international spies who band together to prevent World War III. Set to an ambient mix of … Read more
Boris Johnson and the Queen are among 40,000 Britons listed on a database compiled by a Chinese tech firm with reported links to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks, it can be disclosed. Files on senior British politicians including the Prime Minister, members of the Royal Family, UK military officers and their families, and religious leaders … Read more
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