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Laser Leaks

The GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) in the UK, demanded the return or the destruction of the Guardians’ Snowden files. They were acting on behalf of the British government, citing that the use of lasers by foreign agents could monitor conversations in the room.
The Guardian had secured the files by insuring that they were never connected …

UK Foreign Secretary Too Open About...

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...

Tango with Tehran

By Haggai Carmon

Time has come for the world to recognize that a nuclear-armed Iran could bring the economy to their knees by hiking the price of Middle East oil, and that what is needed is more than rhetoric and mild sanctions against Iran.

“Let’s tango with the Americans,” said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to his …

Mossad agent denied official entry ...

The UK’s upset about the Mossad allegedly using British passports in an assassination operation earlier this year; in retaliation, the Mossad has been banned from placing an agent in Israel’s embassy in London. Although Israel has not...

Proof that Iran’s nuclear program...

Nuclear BlastIran swears up and down that its ongoing uranium enrichment is strictly for the civilian benefits of attaining nuclear power, but the rest of the world doesn’t exactly believe this front. And with good reason – bogus...

Mussolini once in cahoots with MI5

Benito MussoliniIn 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

Martin BormannA 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...

UK spy chief says British intellige...

Sir John Scarlett of MI6Allegations are mounting – have MI5 and MI6 agents been involved in the extreme interrogation and torture of terror suspects abroad? It would not be shocking, given the threat of terrorism, the pressure to stop it in its tracks, and...

25 yrs after death, British double ...

Anthony BluntA 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...

British spy chief’s Facebook faux...

Sir John Sawers mid-conversationBritain’s newly appointed spy chief has suffered his first international embarrassment and he hasn’t even started in his new role yet! Sir John Sawers (53), who will lead the UK’s MI6 intelligence agency come November, has been caught on Facebook with...

UK: Deloitte in the counter-espiona...

Deloitte LogoThe international consultancy Deloitte has announced the launch of a new corporate counter-espionage team within its Security, Privacy & Resilience department. Corporate espionage is on the rise, and Deloitte has cautioned others that this sort of spying can have severe affects on...

UK chooses new spy chief

John Sawers at the UNThe UK has chosen its next overseas spy chief. Come November, John Sawers, who is currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, will be heading up England’s international intelligence...

MI5 Hiring Teachers

MI5 wants you!

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...

British Agent Loses Drug Intelligen...

For most females, a handbag is a veritable extension of the body, but that doesn’t mean they never get lost or accidentally left behind – probably something an undercover British female agent should have considered before traipsing across South America with a USB stick chock-full of intelligence in her purse.

The Sunday Times reported this weekend …

UK Secret Service on the Hunt for G...

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 …