The Austrian capital of Vienna has long been a hub of espionage.
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One man is widely suspected of working as an IRA enforcer and a British informer at the same time. But it’s risky for the government to confirm the rumours.
Honey traps are laid, cyber attacks are enacted and it seems MI5 have to rely upon Slough House to bail them out once again.
Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.
An intelligence expert explains why the UK government is facing questions over the collapse of a trial.
Authoritarian nations are using new tactics, from emotional manipulation to digital surveillance, to sway diaspora attitudes in their favour.
The Soviet ‘illegals’ program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West – just like TV’s The Americans. Who were they, and did they really go away?
The Special Operations Executive initiative that recruited female civilians during the second world war went on to inspire similar programmes by other agencies.
The history of spying shows that many agencies have experimented with using animals for undercover work to gather information.
By 1660, the British government had come to rely on a shadowy trade of secrets for gathering intelligence.
The spies the MI5 don’t want but can’t get rid off are back and the threat level is high.
Who is a spy and what does that mean? An expert explains
The new 00s are back in a mission to stop a network of international smugglers and rescue Britain’s greatest spy, James Bond.
Framing the Petrov affair as a thrilling spy drama may have helped Australians manage their anxiety about the threat posed by Soviet espionage.
Australia’s allies are serious about the risk of research espionage - and one way or another, we need to catch up.
Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
Intelligence reports offer information that can avert threats to national security or promote national interests.
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Associate Fellow in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, University of Salford
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London
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Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate in War Studies, King's College London
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Reader in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Research Fellow in German and Comparative Literature, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in Political Science, Lund University
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Professor of Intelligence Studies
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Senior Research Fellow, RAND Europe; Middlesex University
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Professor of the Practice of Mediation, University of Notre Dame