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  • Monday, 3 December, 2018
    Head of MI6 warns of Huawei security concerns

    Alex Younger says 5G will make it harder to monitor Chinese telecom group’s kit

  • Friday, 19 October, 2018
    Brexit Briefing
    Former MI6 chief backs second referendum

    John Sawers believes both side in Brexit debate should support another plebiscite

  • Tuesday, 2 October, 2018
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    Skripal suspect ‘complicit’ in Yanukovich case

    Ukraine’s interior minister reveals link in talks with UK minister

  • Tuesday, 25 September, 2018
    Cyber warfare
    Tech groups targeted in plan to develop spy tools

    Intelligence agencies look to invest in private sector with £85m venture capital fund

  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    Cyber Security
    UK business leaders urged to upgrade cyber security

    International cyber criminals pose as great a threat as Russia, says British spymaster

  • Wednesday, 23 May, 2018
    UK politics & policy
    Yulia Skripal says she hopes to return to Russia

    Poison victim admits she and her father are ‘lucky to be alive’

  • Thursday, 10 May, 2018
    UK politics & policy
    UK apologises for ‘appalling’ treatment of Libyan

    MI6 assisted Gaddafi regime in detention of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar

  • Thursday, 22 March, 2018
    UK politics & policy
    Poisoned spy may not recover from nerve agent attack

    Judge allows chemical weapons tests on ‘heavily sedated’ pair as UK policeman recovers

  • Tuesday, 6 March, 2018
    Political espionage
    UK police hunt for toxic substance after Russian spy collapse

    Ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and woman being treated in hospital

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    Kremlin’s reaction to MH17 downing cited as example of misinformation campaign

  • Friday, 20 October, 2017
    UK politics & policy
    US to close CIA arm’s UK intelligence monitoring unit

    Decision ends 7 decades of collaboration with BBC at Caversham Park

  • Tuesday, 17 October, 2017
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    UK spies ‘unlawfully’ shared citizens’ data, tribunal told

    Surveillance watchdog hears of harvesting of social media and financial details

  • Friday, 26 May, 2017
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    Libya’s civil war comes home to Manchester

    Terror attack puts focus on failed state whose troubles have been overshadowed by Syria

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2017
    UK terrorism
    UK jihadi killed by RAF posed ‘very serious’ threat

    MPs say Reyaad Khan was a key figure in plotting Isis attacks against Britons

  • Friday, 24 March, 2017
    UK terrorism
    ‘Known wolf’ attackers force intelligence rethink

    Detection models are showing weak spots against peripheral figures

  • Friday, 13 January, 2017
    AnalysisBusiness intelligence
    Trump dossier highlights murky world of private intelligence

    The shadowy sector stretches from dry research to hacking and honey-trapping

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2017
    Political espionage
    Ex-MI6 officer lies low after dossier unmasking

    Compiler of explosive claims was UK intelligence’s top Russia expert

  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2016
    Political espionage
    Cambridge spying experts review funding after Russia claim

    Publisher rejects ‘possible Russian intelligence link’

  • Friday, 16 December, 2016
    Political espionage
    Intelligence experts accuse Cambridge forum of Kremlin links

    Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, resigns from Cambridge Intelligence Seminar

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2016
    Cyber warfare
    UK spy chief warns on ‘profound’ propaganda threat

    Head of MI6 issues veiled warning about the risk posed by Russian subversion

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    UK politics & policy
    Spies move to master digital intelligence

    MI6 embarks on biggest recruitment drive as digital disruption offers both threat and opportunity

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