Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence agency, show the late Queen Elizabeth II was not ...

Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double ...

The newly-declassified documents include details about some of the UK's most notorious spies.

Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was secretly a Soviet spy during WWII.

Though many apply, only a few have the skills and patience to make it as a “watcher”, an MI5 training manual published for the first time by the National Archives reveals. Despite the rise in ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials ...

The late Queen was not formally told of the full scale of Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt’s treachery for almost a decade, according to newly published MI5 documents. A distinguished art historian ...

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However, a Second World War guide produced by MI5 for prospective agents concluded that the ideal “watcher” was “born and not made”. The 17-page guide, which was compiled for “officers ...

Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified documents from MI5. The documents are part of a new exhibition on display at ...