New book casts doubt on accepted picture of communist bloc support for violent radicals during cold warIn June 1986, a pair of operatives from communist Czechoslovakia’s StB intelligence service made contact with a...
Read MoreFiles show PM favoured allowing Putin ‘a position on the top table’ and encouraging him to integrate with westTony Blair was told by officials that he would be presenting Vladimir Putin with a new set of silver...
Read MoreNewly declassified files expose the Foreign Office’s dirty tricks campaign to influence the knife-edge 1976 election resultOn 7 June 1976, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama reported on the...
Read MoreBritain stirred up tensions, chaos and violence in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, according to declassified papersThe British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, targeting Africa, the...
Read MoreNewly declassified papers show shocking role played by Britain in slaughterA propaganda campaign orchestrated by Britain played a crucial part in one of the most brutal massacres of the postwar 20th century, shocking new...
Read MoreFormer MI6 spy exposed hundreds of western agents and settled in Soviet Union after escape from jailThe former British spy and Soviet Union double agent George Blake has died at the age of 98.The RIA news agency reported that...
Read MoreAhead of publishing his 25th novel, le Carré talks to John Banville about our ‘dismal statesmanship’ and what he learned from his time as a spyI have always admired John le Carré. Not always without...
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