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MI6 is recruiting foreign-born spies for the first time in bid to increase diversity among its secret agents Recruits will no longer need to have been born in the UK to apply for roles at MI6 Whitehall source claimed diversification would make the agency ‘more effective’ However, any dual citizens may be asked to give up … Read more
A first-time buyer who got excited after finding a ‘cheap’ property online has told how he realised ‘something wasn’t right’ when he looked it up on Google Street View – and spotted a policeman outside. Scottish comedian Darren Connell said he’s been saving for a house for some time and was intrigued when he found the … Read more
Declassified CIA file reveals that US spies believed that Soviet doctors had ‘perfected’ Extra-Sensory Perception in the 1980s and could transmit thoughts and feelings to subjects An April 1991 memo detailing Soviet ESP experiments has been declassified The memo was released in November and published online on Monday It shows how CIA agents believed Soviet … Read more
British cyber spies are today urgently investigating a major suspected Russian hack that has caused chaos in the US amid fears UK government departments, police forces and private companies could be affected. The sprawling attack is being called the biggest breach in American history and a ‘grave threat’ to the US government, after hackers got … Read more
What time is it in this photo? CIA’s latest test for budding spies asks them to tell the time using just visual clues CIA released a picture depicting a wintry scene asking people to tell the time The illustration contains all the elements of the perfect winter snapshot Most respondents played along, but some asked … Read more
Councils and police are acting like ‘uncontrolled SPIES’ with surveillance technology as sophisticated as MI5 but no regulation, warns Government watchdog Surveillance camera commissioner Tony Porter raised doubts about use of ANPR Said the system was so advance it was like what spies would use on their targets But warned regulator was ‘toothless’ to tackle … Read more
GCHQ spies launch cyber counter-attack against anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by Russia The government is determined to tackle anti-vaxxer propaganda spread online GCHQ has launched a new campaign targeting hostile propaganda by Russia Russian propagandists are targeting the Oxford vaccine with monkey memes By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 02:01 GMT, 9 November 2020 | … Read more
Eighty years ago in 1940, a dark cloud of suspicion verging on paranoia hung heavily over the British Isles. The country was at war with Nazi Germany and Hitler’s forces were camped just across the English Channel. Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, and the country went into a form of lockdown, with barbed wire on … Read more
Early on a sunny midsummer morning, a car carrying four British agents through the peaceful countryside of the remote Sologne in the Loire Valley drove straight into a German ambush. Two of the passengers had just arrived from England by parachute and the car boot was filled with weapons, as well as radio crystals and … Read more
Eagle-eyed Twitter users beat the CIA at its own game AGAIN – spotting as many as 16 differences between two images used to test their tradecraft CIA challenged Twitter followers to find 11 differences between photos Tuesday On Wednesday people said they’d found more with one social media user saying there were 13 differences and … Read more