AGENTS "IN RED" A SECURITY RISK

REASSURING THE PUBLIC 

Information that leaked out following an unusual meeting between prime minister Tony Blair and the three chiefs of Britain's intelligence [...]

LESSONS OF MI6'S LIST OF SPIES 

A month after a list of 117 MI6 agents was published on the Internet (IN 359) the consequences for Britain's [...]

NEW LAWS FOR OLD SECRETS 

The British government is considering amendments to the 1989 Official [...]

CALL FOR PUSH AGAINST CRIME 

David Bickford, legal advisor to MI5 and MI6 from 1987 to 1996, has urged changes in UK law to allow [...]

HISTORY OF THE IRA 

The French journalist Roger Faligot has just published an updated [...]

THE SECRET COST OF RENOVATIONS 

Prime minister Tony Blair has intervened to prevent publication of [...]

MI5 SAYS: "I TOLD YOU SO" 

The British government could have spared itself the embarrassment that followed the Oct. 26 resignation of Welsh secretary Ron Davies [...]

GAZ HUNTER 

A former member of the Special Air Service (SAS) who served in Northern Ireland in the late 1970s, Gaz Hunter, [...]

INQUIRY ON EX-SPY'S CLAIM 

The all-party Commons Intelligence and Security Committee has recommended a full judicial inquiry into allegations by ex-MI5 spy David Shayler [...]

OPENNESS FOR ALL EXCEPT SPY AGENCIES 

The British intelligence and security agencies MI6, MI5 and GCHQ as well as the SAS will not be called upon [...]

PRINCE IDRIS AL-SENUSSI 

Prince Idris al-Senussi, a London-based cousin of the former Libyan ruler King Idris, may be called to give evidence on [...]

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES KEEP THEIR MONEY 

Britain's intelligence agencies have escaped significant financial cuts despite predictions earlier this month that MI5, MI6 and GCHQ would face [...]

JOHN GRIEVE 

Scotland Yard deputy commissioner John Grieve, who heads the Metropolitan police's anti-terrorist unit SO13, has been appointed to the newly-created [...]

MI5 SLAMMED FOR INCOMPETENCE AGAINST IRA 

The British security service MI5 could have prevented an IRA [...]

SUPERGUN AFFAIR STALKS BRITISH AGENCIES 

A British high court judge has ordered the Department of Trade and Industry to pay the legal costs of Gerald [...]

FEWER JOBS IN SPY COMMUNITY 

According to figures released by the Cabinet Office, the number [...]

Belgium opens new file on killing 

The Belgian authorities have re-opened the inquiry into the unsolved 1990 murder of Canadian scientist Gerald Bull, an expert in [...]

MI5 WHISTLE-BLOWER GOES INTO PRINT 

A 54-year-old British engineer, Anthony Holland, who claims to have [...]

WATCHING SADDAM'S FRIENDS 

Despite the agreement brokered by U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan in [...]

WEAPONS FOR ANANDA MARG 

Britain's Foreign Office has refused to intervene in the case of Peter Bleach, a British arms dealer facing trial in [...]

MILOSH STANKOVIC 

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that major Milosh Stankovic of the Parachute Regiment's 1st battalion has been arrested and [...]

HOW MI5 GOT IT WRONG 

Peter Mandelson, a close friend and political advisor to British prime minister Tony Blair and who serves as minister without [...]

HOW OPERATION AIRLINE BEAT IRA 

An 11 week trial at the Old Bailey in London which saw six IRA active service unit (ASU) men convicted [...]

JOHN ANTHONY CAVENDISH 

Despite Home Office warnings that all former intelligence and security service staff face prosecution if they write about their covert [...]

THE SUN NEVER SETS 

The handover of Hong Kong to China in July has forced the British Foreign Office to relocate and consolidate the [...]

MI5 TO RECRUIT ON THE INTERNET 

To promote its policy of greater openness, MI5 is to launch an Internet web site later this year to provide [...]

SHIFTS IN SIGHT FOR GCHQ 

The British signals intelligence agency GCHQ has the authority under Britain's 1994 Intelligence Services Act to "listen inwards" when a [...]

MOD EMBARRASSED BY ARMY SPIES 

A spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that an internal investigation is being conducted into complaints from [...]

DARK SIDE OF POLICE VICTORY 

Scotland Yard's success in finding a major cache of explosives and rolling up a six-man IRA unit in late September [...]

BRITISH ROLL UP IRA SQUAD 

Firing so-called "rip rounds" of CS gas dust, the British authorities conducted dawn raids on two houses in south London [...]

A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT 

The United States still hasn't told the British government exactly how much damage CIA traitor Aldrich Ames inflicted on British [...]

MI6 AND CIA ON THE MARCH 

Japanese intelligence has picked up signs of increased activity by Britain's MI6 in Japan over the past year. As a [...]

BT'S SECURITY HEADACHE 

British Telecom heads a consortium named Inca that is bidding for an estimated one billion pound contract to upgrade the [...]

PROBE INTO ROGUE AGENTS 

Three members of Germany's federal intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst who were part of a joint BND/MI6 covert operation set up in [...]

FINAL GOODBYE FOR PARATROOPS 

When the British Parachute Regiment's 2nd battalion completes its two year tour of duty in Northern Ireland by Aug. 31 [...]

PETER TEMPLE MORRIS 

Regarded as one of the best informed conservative MP's on Irish affairs, Peter Temple Morris, co-chairman of the influential Anglo-Irish [...]

BAD NEWS FOR GCHQ 

A committee looking into the capability, tasks and management structure at GCHQ Cheltenham at prime minister John Major's bidding is [...]

ROBIN BUTLER 

Britain's highest civil servant, 57-year-old Cabinet Secretary Sir Robin Butler, was asked by prime minister John Major in early February [...]

WHEN THE "SLEEPERS" AWAKE 

What could well be the last in a series of major IRA-related trials ended at the Old Bailey in London [...]

FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD 

Unable to pry any information from MI6, members of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FASC) who wanted information on [...]

THE LESLIE ASPIN LEGEND 

A book published in New York last month has shed fresh light on the career of Leslie Aspin, former MI6 [...]

MORE MI5 FOG AT THE CRASH 

Extremely tight security, including a Defence Notice (Directive 6) which bans reporting on intelligence matters, still covers the helicopter crash [...]

MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION 

By calling in the Iranian charge d'affair in London on 24 April, Gholamreza Ansari, the Junior British Foreign Minister, Douglas [...]

MADRONNA OFF TO A BAD START 

Hailed as the "biggest joint anti-IRA operation ever mounted" in the Ireland and Great Britain, Operation Madronna began on 19 [...]

MAJOR ROLL-UP OF BRIT SPIES 

According to Irish sources, the Garda Special Branch (SB) and G2 army intelligence have been involved for almost two years [...]

THE NEW MI6 CHIEF KNEW? 

Despite a Foreign Office (FO) statement that David Rowland Spedding, the new head of the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (I.N. [...]

MI5 LEADS & ARMY WORRIES 

Political lobbyists in Westminster claim senior Conservative MPs are "advising" Prime Minister John Mayor to extend MI5's primary role in [...]

"DIRTY TRICKS" AND "SECRET" TALKS 

According to Intelligence Newsletter sources in Ireland, information recently leaked to the media exposing secret contacts between the British government [...]

INTELLIGENCE BOOKLET II ON JIC 

A sharp public relations exercise was staged at the Cabinet Office in Downing Street on 1 October to promote the [...]

MI5 WORRIED ABOUT NEW BOOK? 

Stephen Dorril, a British journalist specialized in investigating the intelligence [...]

JOHN WHELLER 

Following the resignation on 25 June of Michael Mates in relation to the Asil Nadir scandal (I.N. n. 219), the [...]

IRA & MI5 RACE AGAINST TIME 

Under the recent operation Rolling Rock, at least thirty armed vehicle check points (VCP) were established at random times and [...]

MARGARET RAMSEY 

Margaret "Meta" Ramsey, former MI6 Chief of Station in Stockholm and Helsinki, and once tipped to succeed Sir Colin McColl [...]

In spite of press reports, two meetings apparently took place [...]

GCHQ WORKED ON MR. MAXWELL 

Prime Minister John Mayor denied before the House of Commons on 16 June that the government had prior knowledge of [...]

MI5-MET INFIGHTING TO COME? 

The command structure in the campaign against IRA on the British mainland is being radically reformed with the Security Service, [...]

One of the first tasks facing the newly appointed Home [...]

NEW SPY SUPREMO LIKELY 

A senior MI5 official is currently in Belfast conducting a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland and the [...]

MRS. RIMINGTON'S UNION FRIENDS 

The Tory leader of the Commons, John MacGregor rejected a request for a statement by the Labour MP Tam Dalyell [...]

SPY MERGER UNDER FEMALE CHIEFS? 

The appointment of the first woman director of MI5 - and also the first public naming of MI5"s chief - [...]