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UNITED KINGDOM Issue dated 13/05/1999

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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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 14/01/1999

THE SECRET COST OF RENOVATIONS

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

UNITED KINGDOM 12/11/1998

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 01/10/1998

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 17/09/1998

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 [...]

LIBYA 03/09/1998

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 30/07/1998

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM MIDDLE EAST 04/06/1998

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 07/05/1998

FEWER JOBS IN SPY COMMUNITY

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

UNITED KINGDOM 19/03/1998

MI5 WHISTLE-BLOWER GOES INTO PRINT

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

UNITED KINGDOM 05/03/1998

WATCHING SADDAM'S FRIENDS

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

Spotlight UNITED KINGDOM 04/12/1997

SPY AGENCIES TO ACCOUNT FOR SPENDING

For the first time ever Britain's intelligence services are going to come under financial scrutiny as part of the government's drive to look into civil service expenditure at all levels over the coming 18 months. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 24/07/1997

JOHN ANTHONY CAVENDISH

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

UNITED KINGDOM 30/04/1997

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 13/03/1997

AGENTS "IN RED" A SECURITY RISK

According to the recently-published annual report from the British parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), British agents with financial problems [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 02/01/1997

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 18/04/1996

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 14/06/1995

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 12/04/1995

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM IRAN 25/05/1994

MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION

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

UNITED KINGDOM 23/03/1994

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. [...]

Spotlight UNITED KINGDOM 08/12/1993

MI6 LIFTS THE VEIL

After the public unveiling of MI5 on 16 July and the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) on 1 October, MI6 had its turn to go public on 24 November. However, MI6 chief Sir Colin McColl's press conference that day did not [. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 13/10/1993

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 [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 28/07/1993

MI5 WORRIED ABOUT NEW BOOK?

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

UNITED KINGDOM 14/07/1993

JOHN WHELLER

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

UNITED KINGDOM 27/05/1992

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, [...]

NORTHERN IRELAND 25/03/1992

NEW SPY SUPREMO LIKELY

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

UNITED KINGDOM 15/01/1992

SPY MERGER UNDER FEMALE CHIEFS?

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

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CALL FOR PUSH AGAINST CRIME

THE SECRET COST OF RENOVATIONS

MI5 SAYS: "I TOLD YOU SO"

INQUIRY ON EX-SPY'S CLAIM

OPENNESS FOR ALL EXCEPT SPY AGENCIES

PRINCE IDRIS AL-SENUSSI

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES KEEP THEIR MONEY

SUPERGUN AFFAIR STALKS BRITISH AGENCIES

FEWER JOBS IN SPY COMMUNITY

MI5 WHISTLE-BLOWER GOES INTO PRINT

WATCHING SADDAM'S FRIENDS

SPY AGENCIES TO ACCOUNT FOR SPENDING

JOHN ANTHONY CAVENDISH

MI5 TO RECRUIT ON THE INTERNET

AGENTS "IN RED" A SECURITY RISK

MOD EMBARRASSED BY ARMY SPIES

A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT

PETER TEMPLE MORRIS

BAD NEWS FOR GCHQ

MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION

THE NEW MI6 CHIEF KNEW?

MI6 LIFTS THE VEIL

INTELLIGENCE BOOKLET II ON JIC

MI5 WORRIED ABOUT NEW BOOK?

JOHN WHELLER

MI5-MET INFIGHTING TO COME?

NEW SPY SUPREMO LIKELY

SPY MERGER UNDER FEMALE CHIEFS?

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