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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Russia about to ‘run out of steam’ in Ukraine, says MI6 chief
The head of MI6 has told an international conference that he believes Russia is about to “run out of steam” in Ukraine.
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MI6 chief says spies need tech help to combat Chinese espionage
Chinese secret services are mounting “large-scale” espionage operations against the UK, and the intelligence community must urgently seek new partnerships with tech.
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MI6 face another criminal investigation into allegations its officers were party to Guantanamo torture
MI6 is to face another criminal investigation into allegations its officers were party to the torture of Guantanamo detainees.
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I was MI6’s spy inside Al Qaeda
“Betrayal of the treacherous is loyalty in the eyes of God. I betrayed a bunch of criminals, it’s as simple as that” – the words of one of MI6’s most important spies in the war on terror, Aimen Dean. He worked with Al Qaeda’s master bombmaker in a training camp in Afghanistan in the nineties.…
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Former MI6 spy still in hiding
There’s still no sign tonight of the former British spy at the centre of the lurid allegations against the US president elect Donald Trump.
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MI6 leader blames Russia for increased radical extremism
The battle for Aleppo is high on the agenda for Alex Younger, the chief of MI6 in a rare public speech inside the agency’s London HQ. Mr Younger said the the UK was facing an unprecedented terror threat and blamed Russian action in Syria for increasing the risk of radical extremism.
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How MI6 failed to spot the mole in its ranks
Newly declassified documents reveal how the Secret Intelligence Service failed to uncover traitor Kim Philby, despite evidence of a dangerous double agent in its midst.
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Simon Israel
No state immunity for Jack Straw, MI5 and MI6 in rendition case
The government suffers a significant defeat in attempts to avoid a trial over allegations of complicity in the imprisonment, rendition and torture of a Libyan couple in 2004.
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Iran claims to have captured spy working with MI6
Iranian authorities claim to have arrested an alleged spy working with MI6.
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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.
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MI6 spy Gareth Williams ‘tied himself up’
A former landlady of Gareth Williams, the MI6 spy who was found dead inside a padlocked bag in his bath, describes how she once had to set him free by untying him from his bed.
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MI6 officer inquest sees film of bag holding body
The inquest into the death of MI6 officer Gareth Williams is shown police footage for the first time of his flat and of the red holdhall where his body was found.
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MI6 officer ‘no longer happy at work’, inquest hears
MI6 officer Gareth Williams, whose body was found in a padlocked bag, had complained of “friction” at the service and wanted to leave, says his sister on the first day of an inquest into his death.
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Former Libyan detainees ‘to sue ex-MI6 chief’
Two former Libyan detainees who claim that British spies were involved in their rendition and torture are suing former director of counter-terrorism at MI6, according to their lawyers.
