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An alleged Chinese spy who penetrated the upper echelons of British society has said he ‘would never do anything to harm the interests of the UK’ after his identity was revealed.

The BBC has been given rare access inside MI5’s headquarters in London to meet a senior intelligence officer who shares what it was like to discover he was neurodivergent.

Release of intelligence year after death ‘casts doubt’ on security service’s previous claims about British spy in IRA accused of murders

It follows a government review that uncovered hostile states trying to access serious research in higher education

Forget history lessons about kings and generals, this is the stuff our children should never forget

Salahuddin Amin was a part of a terror cell that plotted a wave of attacks across the UK, including on the Bluewater shopping centre - but had his Parole bid rejected, leaving him behind bars

There is reportedly one, little-known, royal official who has the power to decide whether or not to 'let it slide' when it comes to Meghan and Harry's brand-new website

To his fellow activists, friends and partner Mark Stone was 'one of them' - a passionate environmental activist who was trying to change the world. Finding out he was in fact Mark Kennedy - an undercover cop - left their lives in tatters

The man alleged by the Government to be a Russian spy claimed to have worked for GCHQ, MI6, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office, during which time he met King Charles

Peter and Helen Kroger appeared to be a typical friendly couple who owned a bookshop in west London but their true identities were later revealed as Russian spymasters Morris and Lona Cohen

Valdo Calocane, 32, fatally stabbed Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, during a rampage through Nottingham and tried to ram three others with a van

The 90-year-old MI5 spy known only to the public as 'Barbara' has finally put down her trench coat after a half-century, having joined the service at the height of the Cold War

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat aimed a jibe at his Cabinet colleague David Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, eight years after the then PM predicted a "golden era" of relations with Beijing

Gary Oldman is back for a third instalment of Apple’s hit spy drama

Apple TV+’s spy-drama returns later this year for a new season packed with action and espionage

'If this tragedy had taken place in the UK it‘s scale would represent over 10,000 deaths with close to 1,500 kidnapped. Even in absolute terms, the events were shocking'

MI5 director-general Ken McCallum has warned Chinese spy agents have attempted to contact British entrepreneurs over networking sites such as LinkedIn, amid concerns of hacking

Orlin Roussev, Bizer ­Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova allegedly conspired to gather information which would be useful to an enemy

Vanya Gaberova, 29, Orlin Roussev, 45, Bizer Dzhambazov, 41, Katrin Ivanova, 31, and Ivan Stoyanov, 31, are all accused of conspiring to collect information that could be indirectly useful to an enemy state, which is thought to be Russia

A Government minster insisted the party acted swiftly after chiefs from the intelligence agency warned about the possibility the MP hopefuls were agents for Beijing

The former Prime Minister made a rare intervention in Parliament during an emergency debate on the alleged national security scandal gripping Westminster

Daniel Abed Khalife trialed his methods before he successfully strapped himself to a delivery van to escape the South London prison. He smiled after he was finally caught and was handcuffed with a cable tie on Saturday afternoon.

Despite women having some of the most vital frontline roles in the UK's intelligence services, they earn 16% less than their male colleagues

Bizer Dzhambazov and his partner Katrin Ivanova held down normal jobs, enjoyed regular fry-ups at a local cafe and delighted neighbours by bringing them 'cakes and pies'