All news on the topic: MI5

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UK security agency advised public figures to build safe rooms months before Ann Widdecombe’s death
The National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) has advised public figures to consider setting up a safe room and smoke machine intruder deterrents in their properties
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Senior MI5 officers face possible prosecution over false evidence in neo-Nazi agent case
Senior MI5 officers could be prosecuted for lying during a court case about a neo-Nazi agent on their payroll.
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Former Tesco worker jailed for plotting terrorist attack after building neo-Nazi hit list
Former Tesco worker Alfie Coleman, now 22, was just 14 when he first began to trawl the internet for extreme right-wing material on is electronic devices.
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Chinese spies using LinkedIn to target UK officials in aggressive recruitment campaign, MI5 warns
Chinese spies are targeting UK government and military staff on job websites including LinkedIn to try to get access to classified or sensitive information, MI5 has warned.
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UK intelligence figures involved in drafting controversial Troubles amnesty legislation, documents show
The British security services were involved in formulating the controversial Legacy Act, which offered an amnesty to soldiers and paramilitaries despite MI5’s role in many killings during the Northern Ireland Troubles, it can be revealed.
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Iranian spies and saboteurs to face longer imprisonment
Spies for hostile states, including Iran, will face longer prison sentences under new sentencing laws that take effect on Sunday.
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Report finds MI5 shielded IRA double agent Stakeknife, allowing murders and obstructing investigation
A long-awaited nine-year investigation has concluded that MI5 allowed a top agent inside the IRA to commit murders and later hindered efforts to investigate his crimes.
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’Generating Mayhem’: British Citizen Dylan Earl recruited via Telegram for Arson Attack on aid warehouse for Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has moved on from ‘revenge hits’ to pursuing his war aims on the streets of the UK, according to a seasoned intelligence expert.
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Security services ‘very relaxed’ about China’s 20,000 sq m embassy plan
MI5 officers informed the House of Commons speaker in a private meeting that they are capable of handling the risks associated with a proposed Chinese super-embassy in London, paving the way for its approval.
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MI5 warns MPs about suspected Chinese spies recruiting on LinkedIn
MI5 has issued an espionage alert to MPs and peers warning that two people linked to the Chinese intelligence service are actively seeking to recruit parliamentarians.
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British court sentences man behind Wagner-inspired London arson to 17 years
The ringleader of an arson attack on a Ukrainian-owned business in London last year was jailed for 17 years on Friday for what prosecutors called a “sustained campaign of terrorism and sabotage” on British soil.
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MI5 chief vents ’frustration’ after China spy trial collapses over government stance
The MI5 director has voiced his frustration over the trial involving two alleged Chinese spies after the high-profile case was abandoned last month.
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MI5 warns UK MPs they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran
The domestic spy agency of Britain, MI5, issued a rare public warning to members of parliament on Monday that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia, and Iran in an attempt to undermine the country’s democracy.
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MI5 veteran: UK ‘already at war’ with Russia
The former head of MI5 has warned that we may be ’already at war with Russia’ as Vladimir Putin launched a brutal 12-hour bombardment of Kyiv.
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Dame Stella Rimington, the first female director of MI5, has died at age 90
Dame Stella Rimington, who advanced from being a part-time typist in MI5 to becoming the spy agency’s first female director general, has died at the age of 90.
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Blaise Metreveli becomes the first woman to lead Britain’s MI6 intelligence service
Blaise Metreweli is appointed as Britain’s top intelligence officer as the country encounters “threats on an unprecedented scale,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer states.
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GCHQ intern sentenced to 7 years for stealing classified data and endangering UK national security
A GCHQ intern has been jailed for more than seven years for taking home top secret data, endangering national security and risking the exposure of colleagues.
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UK court orders MI5 to hand over secret documents in case of neo-Nazi agent X
MI5 is facing fresh scrutiny in the case of a violent neo-Nazi agent after a High Court judge said he had "no confidence" in the Security Service’s account of how a senior officer gave false evidence.
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Major terror attack in the UK was just hours away — police foiled the plot in time
Counter-terror officers and Special Forces conducted raids on two suspected Iranian cells in a ’highly significant’ operation to address the increasing activity by the hostile state in the UK
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MI5 officer calls for ’wider conversation’ on handling young extremists at Rhianan Rudd inquest
Officer who investigated Rhianan Rudd, who died by suicide, tells inquest ‘wider conversation’ needed on such cases
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MI5 admits to deceiving courts to protect violent neo-Nazi informant
MI5 misled three courts while defending its management of a misogynistic neo-Nazi state agent who assaulted his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC can reveal.
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Secret documents disclose that the late Queen was unaware for a decade about a Russian spy in the royal household
Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for a decade about a Russian spy who infiltrated her household and was one of her most senior advisers, according to newly released MI5 files.
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Chinese ‘spy’ Yang Tengbo denies allegations after being publicly named
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.
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Autistic people in service in British intelligence
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.
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Inquiry chief alarmed by MI5’s posthumous discovery of Stakeknife files
Release of intelligence year after death ‘casts doubt’ on security service’s previous claims about British spy in IRA accused of murders