- From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature The volume’s glossy dust jacket shows a...
- The US agency sent the Guardian Weekly alongside 10m books including titles by Orwell and Solzhenitsyn by truck, yacht, balloon and in travellers’ luggage • Read an extract from The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War by...
- Exclusive: Decision comes after Italian investigative journalist and two activists alleged to have been targeted by Paragon Solutions spyware Paragon Solutions, whose military-grade hacking software was allegedly used to target 90...
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- This blog has now closed. Read our latest story here Donald Trump will sign an executive order to prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at 3pm today, the White House said. Dubbed “No Men in Women’s Sports”, the...
- The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts on Tuesday, citing aim to bring agency in line with Trump priorities, US media report The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce on Tuesday, citing an aim to...
- Husam El Gomati, who reports on links between Italian government and Libya’s coastguard, fears for his sources A Sweden-based Libyan activist who has been a vocal critic of Italy and its dealings in Libya was alerted by WhatsApp last...
- Former soldier Daniel Khalife has been sentenced to more than 14 years in custody and condemned as a 'dangerous fool' for spying for Iran and escaping from prison. Khalife, then 23, sparked a high-profile manhunt in September 2023 when...
- Khalife sparked manhunt when he escaped from HMP Wandsworth by clinging to underside of delivery truck Daniel Khalife, a former soldier, has been sentenced to more than 14 years in custody and condemned as a “dangerous fool” for spying...
- Trump’s better-known adversaries were expecting payback, but more intense vengeance is being felt by civil servants Federal government workers have been left “shell-shocked” by the upheaval wreaked by Donald Trump’s return to the...
- Prosecutor at Old Bailey says Katrin Ivanova was only member of Bulgarian spy ring able to pull off plot A lab technician has been accused of being the only member of a Bulgarian spy ring able to pull off a plot to steal the mobile...
- New book casts doubt on accepted picture of communist bloc support for violent radicals during cold war In June 1986, a pair of operatives from communist Czechoslovakia’s StB intelligence service made contact with a mysterious couple...
- Analysis released by new director, John Ratcliffe, suggests the agency believes totality of evidence makes a lab origin The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory,...
- Defence secretary tells Commons the Yantar had been ‘mapping the UK’s critical underwater infrastructure’ A Russian “spy ship” was tracked closely by the Royal Navy this week after it entered UK waters on Monday and passed through the...
- Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and around the world In the dark days of the...
- MI5 told Bogarde in 1971 that he had been identified as ‘practising homosexual’ of interest by Russian spies The film star Dirk Bogarde was “clearly disturbed” and “troubled” after MI5 warned him that his name had been given to the KGB...
- Documents indicate monarch was informed Anthony Blunt was Soviet agent in 1973, though he confessed in 1964 The late Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost 10 years that Anthony Blunt, a surveyor of the queen’s pictures and a member...
- Naomi Alderman’s 50-part history of great thinkers gets off to a flying start. Plus, an exposé of Russian interference in UK politics; and in the week the BBC axed Short Cuts, where now for young audio talent? Human Intelligence Radio 4/...
- State-backed cyperspies are exploiting ageing infrastructure to penetrate every corner of the US government, it seems – even its phone-tapping systems You know the drill. You’re logging into your bank or another service (Gmail, to name...
- Vastly experienced former defense secretary who allowed women into combat is braced for backlash but feels ‘deep, deep down in my guts’ that norms will hold In January 2013, as US defense secretary, Leon Panetta lifted a ban on women...
- Letter allegedly written by US official shows contradictions in how government handled mysterious health incidents A leaked letter purportedly written by a senior US military official and published on social media on Monday highlights...
- Workers who reported symptoms of the illness often faced delayed or denied care and struggled to access benefits A newly declassified US Senate report found that the CIA’s handling of mysterious health incidents known as Havana syndrome...
- Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a...
- Amid claims of sabotage of undersea cables, a small wooden structure houses a key cog in Europe’s digital connectivity At the end of an unmarked path on a tiny island at the edge of Stockholm’s extensive Baltic Sea archipelago lies an...
- Belfast-based Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey won landmark victory that PSNI’s surveillance was unlawful Two investigative journalists who a tribunal ruled were unlawfully spied on by police have said that they are in “no doubt”...
- The Duke of York is a royal problem, says Marina Hyde: it’s time they owned it. Matt Goss discusses mega-fame, political correctness and loneliness with Simon Hattenstone. After April Balascio’s foster brother was killed, she started...
- The PM’s attitude to China exposes the void where there should be a strategic concept of Britain’s place in the world When Keir Starmer met Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio last month he declared that Britain should build a “...
- Claims of refused FOI requests into Duke of York’s business dealings come as controversy over alleged Chinese spy continues Getting information from government departments about the Duke of York’s past business dealings is like playing...
- Exclusive: Despite calls for more scrutiny in light of Prince Andrew spy allegations, Starmer’s instinct is not to do anything to hamper growth A review of UK-China relations has been delayed until after the chancellor makes her first...
- Intelligence agency has been trying to entice Russians disaffected by invasion of Ukraine but president-elect is likely to want to make an ally of Kremlin For the past three years, the CIA has run an unusually bold outreach programme. It...
- Lawsuit alleges law enforcement agencies knew of plot to kill civil rights leader but did not act to stop it The family of Malcolm X , the militant civil rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100m federal...
- CIA’s Asif W Rahman will appear in court over espionage offenses following a release of highly classified documents A US intelligence official has been charged with espionage offenses following an investigation into the leak last month...
- Leon Panetta says he also expects US president-elect to favor letting Russia retain control of areas of Ukraine US elections 2024 – live updates Donald Trump will as president give Benjamin Netanyahu a “blank check” in the Middle East,...
- House of Trump, House of Putin author sees dark parallels between 2024 and a 1980 election beset by foreign intrigue Late last month, Hillary Clinton warned of an impending “October surprise”, the sort of political bombshell often seen...
- Brian Jeffrey Raymond of California was found guilty of drugging and raping women in his government apartments A former CIA officer who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday, the...
- State department says allegations of American collusion are ‘categorically false’ as US navy member identified among foreign citizens detained The US state department rejected wild allegations of CIA involvement in an alleged...
- Alexander Yuk Ching Ma pleaded guilty to accepting gifts from China in return for delivering US defense information A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI who received cash, golf clubs and other expensive gifts in...
- Bill Burns calls Vladimir Putin a ‘bully’ whose ‘sabre-rattling’ should not always be taken literally Western leaders should not be intimidated by Kremlin threats of nuclear escalation, the head of the CIA said on Saturday, amid a debate...
- Image shows one of five men accused by US government of plotting 9/11 attacks, who remains in custody without a criminal conviction Warning: this article contains graphic images and descriptions of torture The man is very slight of...
- Leon Panetta says lapses ‘particularly disturbing’ given reports of threats from Iran towards former president The former CIA director Leon Panetta decried security failings around the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in...
THE PALESTINIAN MILITANT GROUP Hamas has published the name, address and photograph of an individual believed to be the incoming director of Israel’s security service.
A JUDGE IN NEW Zealand rejected on Monday a request by news media to lift the ban on the identity of a soldier, who was arrested nearly two years ago for allegedly spying for a foreign country.
EARLIER IN SEPTEMBER, FIVE members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and one member of Fatah escaped from the Gilboa Prison in Israel, by digging a tunnel under the prison walls. The escape was a dramatic surprise and caused wonder in the...
THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS summoned the chief Georgian envoy to Brussels, in response to allegations that European, American and other diplomats were spied on by the Georgian security services.
THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF Venezuela’s military spy agency has been captured in Madrid after two years on the run, and is now likely to be extradited to the United States, where he will face drug trafficking charges.
A WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CLAIMS that a major Dutch oil firm paid millions in bribes to officials in return for lucrative contracts, is to be extradited to Monaco, following his arrest in Croatia last summer.
ISRAEL’S PRIMARY EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE agency, the Mossad, assassinated the lead military scientist behind Iran’s nuclear program using a remote-controlled robot, according to a new report.
THE SOMALI CAPITAL MOGADISHU remains tense today, after the country’s president and prime minster, who are supported by rival militias, leveled accusations at each other over an intelligence officer’s disappearance.
Three former employees of American spy agencies, who helped the United Arab Emirates hack targets around the world, including United States citizens, have agreed to cooperate with the investigation into their activities.
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ARE noticing early signs that al-Qaeda may be regrouping in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, according to the deputy director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.