New recruits to MI5’s “watchers” division during the ... “Screen sleuths of the secret service thriller or detective novel appeal to the uninitiated, but in actual practice there is ...

That was the advice issued to rookie MI5 “watchers” whose job it was ... in a booklet issued to all new recruits to the Security Service during the Second World War. The now-declassified ...

The Security Service MI5 carried out a secret analysis of BBC reports on the Government's Iraqi weapons dossier in an attempt to identify the corporation's "mole", according to documents released ...

It may be considered essential in Secret Service films but in practice it is ... public transport and sometimes into restaurants or hotels, MI5 watchers have provided a crucial role to British ...

Other documents released on Tuesday relating to MI5's work from 1909 until the ... "It may be considered essential in Secret Service films but in practice it is to be deplored.

The intelligence agency is looking for gamers and geeks who spend their free time 'reading up on cybersecurity, ethical hacking, or coding' - with as little as two GCSEs needed to qualify ...

FILM star Dirk Bogarde was quizzed by MI5 over fears he was the target of a gay entrapment plot, declassified files show. In 1970, the secret service learned he was on a Soviet list of six ...

LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts ... plaque at the headquarters of the foreign intelligence service in Moscow. In the files relating to Blunt, there ...