A SOURCE who claimed to a BBC Spotlight programme that Gerry Adams sanctioned the Provisional IRA’s murder of a British agent ...

During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappe | ...

An MI5 review into the failure of British secret services to disclose information to the team investigating agent Stakeknife has been branded a “whitewash”. The report was ordered by the ...

A former British intelligence chief said given how close the suspects were believed to be in carrying out a massacre, it was ...

There is no evidence the security service, MI5, intentionally withheld documents from a major investigation into the agent in the IRA known as Stakeknife, a review has concluded. It was conducted ...

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The shocking scale of this threat was made clear last year by MI5 director general Ken McCallum, who said spies and police had identified 20 credible Iranian plots to kill or kidnap people in the ...

An MI5 review into the failure of the British security agency to disclose information to the team investigating agent Stakeknife has been branded a “whitewash”. The report was ordered by the ...

London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrests on Sunday, saying five men, including four of the Iranian nationals, were ...

An MI5 review into the failure by the spy agency to disclose information to the team investigating the British agent Stakeknife will be made public on Thursday. It emerged last year that MI5 had ...

It is “likely” a source who made allegations against Gerry Adams in a BBC documentary “would be killed” if they were identified, a journalist for the broadcaster has told a libel trial. Mr Adams is ...