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SECRET MI5 FILES DISCLOSE HUNT FOR NAZI AGENT WERNE ...
By Daria Carmon
MI5 files declassified by the British spy organization just last month, chronicle the espionage career of German operative Werner Plack and subsequent search for him during the Nazi era, and the account sounds like the plot of a movie, somewhat fitting since he had once been a film extra. Plack, elegant, charming, and with…
UK Foreign Secretary Too Open About British Spies?
Not too long ago, the official word was that MI5 and MI6, the UK’s top secret intelligence agencies, didn’t exist. Spies were certainly never admitted to in arenas accessible to the public, and spy agencies were only ‘rumors.’ But UK Foreign Secretary William Hague…
Mussolini once in cahoots with MI5
In 1917, when Mussolini was the journalist in charge of the newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia, he was on the payroll of British Intelligence, reports the historian Peter Martland of Cambridge University. Might sound hard to believe, but…
MI5 manhunt for dead Nazi revealed
A hitherto classified MI5 file, finally released a couple days ago, reveals that the British secret services were, for a long time, chasing after a dead Nazi. Seems like a productive use of taxes folks, and also a classic plot-line for a…
25 yrs after death, British double agent’s memoir ...
A quarter century after his death, Anthony Blunt – a British spy secretly working for the Russians – reveals some of the details of his clandestine life in a 30,000-word manuscript, which he penned after his very public exposure as a…
MI5 Hiring Teachers
To teach? No, of course not – to spy. The British security agency MI5, whose mission is to frustrate terrorism, stop foreign espionage and prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, has decided that Britain’s teachers have just the…
UK Secret Service on the Hunt for Gadget Guru
Officially, MI5 has posted a job opening on their website for a Chief Scientific Advisor, but what they’re really looking for is someone along the lines of the character Q, the man who outfits James Bond with all of his secret agent gadgets (think sleek cars that can travel underwater and tazer-emitting cell phones).
The Advisor will…
20 foreign agencies spying on Britain; UK forced to ...
According to a UK government security document dated January 19, Great Britain is currently under the surveillance of spies from 20 foreign intelligence agencies. The report singles out Russia and China as having the most active espionage operations in the country, but NATO allies like France and Germany are also listed among those trying to get…