MI5 convinced George Orwell was not communist
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The domestic intelligence agency MI5 kept tabs on George Orwell for more than two decades but did not believe he was a mainstream communist, according to records made public on Tuesday.
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An inquiry by British police officers said it found no evidence that Britain allowed the CIA to use the country's airports to take terror suspects to other countries.The 18-month inquiry examined claims by the human rights group Liberty that such 'extraordinary rendition' flights chartered by the U.S. government through the CIA landed in Britain before spiriting away terror suspects.Liberty, which had requested the inquiry, rejected its findings after they were released Friday.Michael Todd, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, agreed to investigate the allegations on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers. Read more
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George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."
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A computer expert in possession of a list which reveals the identities of the rich and influential figures who allegedly backed the Equatorial Guinea coup plot has become an important witness for the prosecution.
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Spain's foreign minister admits Spain may have been a stopover for secret CIA flights, but says no law was broken.
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Author Martin Amis says his new book, which examines Muslim extremism, does not mean he is anti-Islam.
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The F.B.I. has gathered evidence that an official passed classified documents to a pro-Israeli lobbying group, who in turn provided the information to Israeli intelligence.
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Mandelson claims detectives created 'false impression' of PM.
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MOSCOW, May 31 -- The former KGB agent charged by British prosecutors with poisoning another former agent in London last November held a news conference Thursday to finger MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, as a more likely suspect in the killing.
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A new exhibition in London lifts the lid on the real-life world of spying, amid concerns about a developing "Big Brother" society and its effects on individual freedoms and civil liberties.Comment
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Secret files show senior Stormont officials believed Ian Paisley was associated with paramilitaries.
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Â· Police search for evidence of leaks to US authors  Â· Book claims CIA and MI6 failed to halt smuggling
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By HYWEL TREWYN  NORTH Wales Police have nailed a sophisticated scam in which computer hackers obtained pay-for-view television free.   A house in Anglesey was the centre of an international operation which took several months to carry out.
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MI6's former chief denies that the service murdered Princess Diana at the inquest into her death.
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MOSCOW, May 31 -- The former KGB agent whom British prosecutors have accused of poisoning another former agent in London said Thursday that the British intelligence service MI6 was a likely suspect in the killing.
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One of the hunt supporters who invaded the House of Commons denies being helped by an insider.
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Britain's former spy chief on Wednesday  took the rare step of going public to deny that the security  services murdered Princess Diana.