Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Double agent Freddie Scappaticci (pictured at the 1987 funeral of IRA man Larry Marley) was involved in 14 executions and 15 ...

LONDON -- Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency and later a successful thriller writer, has died, her family said Monday. She was 90. The first woman to head a ...

LONDON — A High Court ruling in London Wednesday has cast a critical spotlight on Britain's MI5 domestic intelligence agency. A ruling by a three-judge panel at London's High Court cited the agency's ...

Aug. 4 (UPI) --Stella Rimington, the first female chief of the British Security Service MI5 and the first woman to "head any intelligence agency in the world," has died at the age of 90. Rimington, ...

The head of the UK’s domestic spy agency, MI5, has ramped up tensions against Russia, Iran and China, demonising the three countries as “state threats” in a “threat update” this week. MI5 Director ...

LONDON — Britain is facing a “staggering rise” in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes on its soil by Russia and Iran as the two states recruit criminals to “do their dirty work,” the ...

For much of its 100-year history, spanning two world wars, the Cold War and the fight against terrorism, Britain’s MI5 domestic intelligence agency has operated in total secrecy. The government ...