The Latest Breaking News from MI6

Jagtar has been imprisoned in India for over five years after being accused of helping to fund a Sikh-on-Hindu assassination plot, which his family strongly denies.

The spies are reportedly primed to kill on the command of Russian President Vladimir Putin

UK intelligence agencies to broaden pool of talent by accepting anyone with British citizenship

They were the golden couple of British acting, but Helen McCrory’s death last year left her husband shattered. Now he is putting the pieces of himself back together – and finding a new creative energy

The former head of Britain's MI6 recently said Russian President Vladimir Putin could be replaced by someone more extreme

You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6’s fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way.

Today MI5 is releasing a massive number of its historical files into the National Archives at Kew. Among them are papers telling for the first time the inside story of its investigation of John Vassall — the notorious KGB spy in the Admiralty until his arrest in 1962.

The head of Britain’s cyber-intelligence agency is accusing China of using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad

M16 agent Gareth Williams was found dead in a bag inside his flat in 2010. Here's everything we know about Gareth Williams' life, his mysterious death and revelations from the inquest as Channel 5 documentary The Body In The Bag airs