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Britain's spy agency is celebrating the festive season with a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery

The puzzle is masterminded by a team of experts who work at GCHQ

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

The woman in charge of the secure communication channel remains implacably opposed to the ‘disease’ of surveillance – and concerned about the sharing of personal data

David Omand says pledges on nuclear deterrent shows party can be trusted ‘to stick to serious defence policy’

Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.

Anne Keast-Butler ‘increasingly concerned’ by growing links between Russia and proxy hacker groups that pose risk to UK

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Code-breaker was found dead inside a padlocked holdall at his London flat in 2010