Real-life spies say their world is nothing like that of James Bond, but in one way truth may soon follow fiction: MI6 could be about to get its first woman leader ...

MI5 and MI6, the secret intelligence service, have a long history of handling rogue agents and rogue officers. Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, David Shayler and Northern Ireland double agent ...

The Ukrainian leader says he will travel to Saudi Arabia where talks on bringing a "lasting" peace will take place.

Spies lie, but they are not meant to get caught. On a wet Friday evening in December, three MI5 lawyers sat in a room at the BBC's headquarters in London. On the other side of the table were the ...

Unlike other government departments, MI5 is not subject to the Freedom of ... Philby's confession to his long-time friend and fellow MI6 officer Nicholas Elliot is shared in the exhibition and ...