Follow the cases that shaped the intelligence world.
Police invoke the National Security Act in the inquiry into activity near the airbase. Earlier searches recovered petrol and found no improvised explosive device. Iran denies involvement.
A federal judge denied home confinement for Abdulrahman Alfozan. Prosecutors allege he was days from leaving for Saudi Arabia; his lawyer says the family trip was planned for paternity leave.
The new team brings expertise from across British security bodies into a centre housed inside MI5.
Beijing rejects the measures linked to former Google engineer Linwei Ding. His theft convictions remain, while a judge dismissed the separate economic-espionage counts.
TIME’s newly published correspondence puts Yossi Cohen’s support for humanitarian assistance back under scrutiny.
A Bosnian arms broker received a 60-month sentence after pleading guilty over an attempted purchase of portable anti-aircraft missiles from North Korea.
Britain's domestic intelligence service says state threats now consume more resources than during the Cold War. Its annual assessment points to Russian proxy operations and more than 50 arrests linked to Iran-focused investigations, while Moscow and Tehran reject accusations of hostile activity.
Sue Mi Terry’s foreign-agent prosecution is deferred for a year, with restrictions on travel, South Korean contacts and gifts. Successful compliance would end the case.
The court-authorized action targeted Microscan and FishHub, which U.S. authorities link to China-based Integrity Technology Group. Britain and international partners issued a parallel warning.
The agency says new commercial National Security Systems must support quantum-resistant algorithms from 2027.
The UK cyber agency’s April guidance recommends passkeys where available, while retaining password managers and two-step verification for services that do not support them.
Blaise Metreweli’s blueprint for the service brings Python into the same conversation as running agents in hostile territory.
Xu Yanjun’s aviation espionage case ended with a twenty-year sentence. A conditional commutation and prisoner swap changed what happened next.
Mitrokhin’s papers gave researchers a remarkable intelligence collection. Its custodians draw a sharp distinction between open typescripts and classified originals.
Robert Hanssen’s case exposed failures in file controls, background checks and computer auditing that the bureau’s own watchdog documented in detail.
The Rainbow Warrior bombing killed Fernando Pereira and forced France to answer for a DGSE operation in New Zealand’s harbour.
Project AZORIAN put a giant claw on the Pacific seabed. Mechanical failure and a stolen document left the CIA’s recovery mission unfinished.
Ellis, Cocks and Williamson reached public-key ideas inside British intelligence. Independent researchers carried the field into public use before GCHQ disclosed its work.
The 1960 operation in Argentina led to a diplomatic clash and a Jerusalem trial that put deportation records and survivor testimony before a global audience.
George Blake betrayed the joint CIA–MI6 operation during planning. The KGB protected him while Western analysts collected almost a year of Soviet traffic.
A new German intelligence service inherited Gehlen’s network, American sponsorship and personnel whose wartime records could not be wished away.
ASIO obtained Soviet secrets in 1954. Evdokia Petrov’s decision at Darwin turned a clandestine recruitment into a national drama.
MI5’s double agent built fictitious sources, carefully timed truths and a persuasive story about D-Day. His German handlers rewarded him for it.
Rejected by the Foreign Service after losing a leg, Hall built resistance networks in France and returned for an OSS mission before D-Day.
VENONA grew from a small Army project into a decades-long intelligence partnership. Its surviving messages also show the limits of reading an enemy’s traffic.
The Hut 8 specialist helped attack naval Enigma, became a wartime deputy and continued her intelligence career at GCHQ.