THE LESLIE ASPIN LEGEND

GAZ HUNTER 

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

JOHN ANTHONY CAVENDISH 

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD 

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

MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION 

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

NEW SPY SUPREMO LIKELY 

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

SPY MERGER UNDER FEMALE CHIEFS? 

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