Rookie wartime MI5 "watchers" were advised they needed to be prepared to offer a big tip if they had to tell a taxi driver to ...

Avoid facial disguises, carry loose change and be ready to make split-second decisions: just some of the advice Britain’s ...

Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified ...

Despite advances in electronic surveillance, security service MI5 still relies on human ‘watchers’. Government documents ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for almost a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had confessed to ...

A World War II-era tailing guide is among declassified records shedding light on spy game in MI5: Official Secrets, at the ...

Avoid false beards, carry plenty of spare change and know what to do when you need to tell a taxi driver "follow that cab!" - ...

Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was secretly a Soviet spy during WWII.

Newly released MI5 files from the National Archives reveal that British intelligence monitored potential connections between French government interests and nationalist movements in Scotland and Wales ...

A newly declassified document is on display at the National Archives. It reveals the advice given to new MI5 recruits during ...

MI5 feared film star Dirk Bogarde could be the target of a KGB gay "entrapment" attempt after it emerged he was on a list of ...

The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by ...