Reading and Writing

"Richard Lance Keeble in "Hacks and Spooks" writes about the close ties between British and American intelligence agencies an...

"To his handlers in the Security Service, MI5, he was code-named Snow, while to his masters in German intelligence he was Johnny. Arthu...

Juan Pujol "Garcia, code-named "Garbo" by his MI5 handlers because he was "the world’s best actor," was the man who...

"Although the Cold War saw some cool spy shenanigans, nothing beats the insanity of World War II. Eddie Chapman was a British criminal ...

"Historians still argue why [ Kim] Philby, a British aristocrat and a graduate of the Cambridge University, suddenly chose to work for ...

"The silence [...] gave little indication of the intensity and importance of the work being done in the building known as Camp 020, MI5...

"I’m assured that many things people believe about MI5’s recruitment processes are myths. It is not true that it doesn’t recruit tall p...

Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, was employed as a secretary to the head of MI6. "The daughter of the 16th Lord...

"Surely the most eccentric unsung spy was Maxwell Knight, known to his friends as Max or M. Although he did later become well known, it...

"British spies are back this month. Of course they never went away. The shadowy world of MI5 and MI6 is rarely more than a microdot...

"Secret documents declassified Friday by Britain's MI5 security service reveal in dramatic and everyday detail how the U.K. under P...

"Life of spies excites the imagination by various adventures, exotic trips, luxury and everyday risk. As in the movies about James Bond...

Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR, honored one of Moscow's most important Soviet-era spies. The former British ...

Well, at last we have an "explanation" for all those intelligence bloopers of the last 7 years: In his first public speech since t...