A wide range of stories feature on Sunday’s front pages. The Sunday Telegraph leads on the arrest of a British man on suspicion of spying and terror-related offences in Cyprus. He is thought to have carried out surveillance for Iran on an RAF base. The paper points out that this comes as the conflict in...
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Getty Images Frederick Forsyth, who has died at the age of 86, wrote meticulously researched thrillers which sold in their millions. A former fighter pilot, journalist and spy, many of his books were based on his own experience. He wove intricate technical details into his stories, without detracting from the lightning pace of his plots....
Alamy Sir Brian Leveson is the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, responsible for overseeing MI5’s activities The watchdog charged with holding MI5 to account rewrote a report into the handling of a violent neo-Nazi agent after the Security Service gave it false information, the BBC can reveal. An early draft of the report by the Investigatory Powers...
PA Media MI5 told the court everyone from director general Ken McCallum downwards acknowledged the seriousness of the false evidence MI5 lied “deliberately and repeatedly” as it tried to defend its handling of a neo-Nazi agent who abused women, the BBC has told a panel of High Court judges. The corporation argued the threshold for...
Dismantling the Deep State can be tremendously difficult to achieve. On occasions, though, the trash takes itself out. Meet Nathan Villas Laatsch, who started off this week working at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He ended up this week exploring the confines of a room at the federal Graybar Hotel, thanks to a string of incredibly...
Nick Thorpe Central Europe correspondent SBU Ukraine said it uncovered a Hungarian espionage network earlier this month A spate of arrests, diplomatic expulsions and public humiliations has plunged relations between war-torn Ukraine and its prickly Nato neighbour Hungary to a new low. At the heart of the row are accusations that Viktor Orban’s Fidesz government...
After reading about intellectually and ethically challenged Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson for any length of time, especially if you’ve done it here, two things should have become dazzlingly clear: he is completely and utterly the tool of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and its sketchy president, Stacy Davis Gates. He is owned lock, stock, and...
Ukraine says it has uncovered a Hungarian-operated spy network attempting to obtain intelligence about its defences. The country’s security service said it had detained two alleged Hungarian spies who it accused of gathering intelligence on its air defence systems. “For the first time in Ukraine’s history, the Security Service has exposed a Hungarian military intelligence...
AFP Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar says his dismissal was motivated by political and personal considerations The stand-off between Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, Ronen Bar, has further intensified, with each man accusing the other of lies or inaccuracies in sworn depositions. Netanyahu announced the...
51 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave Last week’s Supreme Court ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law is still taking up plenty of column inches on Monday. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer must break his silence on the ruling, the Daily Mail says. Sir Keir has been urged to publicly back...
Getty Images Prince Andrew’s involvement with an alleged Chinese spy came at a time his chief aide and other royals believed his reputation was “irrecoverable”. Previously secret documents detail how ex-advisor Dominic Hampshire saw Yang Tengbo as Andrew’s “only light at the end of the tunnel” after his Newsnight interview in 2019. The documents also...
More documents about the relationship between Prince Andrew and an alleged Chinese agent of influence are being released to BBC News on Friday. The court papers about Yang Tengbo’s alleged activities in the UK are becoming public after a legal battle including other media outlets for more transparency in the semi-secret case. Mr Yang has...
Former Premier League manager Harry Redknapp appeared to make a Nazi salute after joking England boss Thomas Tuchel was “a German spy” when speaking at a charity event. Tuchel became England manager in January and led them to World Cup qualifying wins over Albania and Latvia in his first two games in charge. Ex-Portsmouth, Tottenham...
