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A secret listener eavesdrops on conversations of German prisoners of war. (Courtesy Helen Fry)
November 1, 2019, 9:08 am
How Britain’s German-born Jewish ‘secret listeners’ helped win World War II
A new book by historian Helen Fry details the daring operation in which the UK eavesdropped on Nazi prisoners, gleaning precious intel — and early graphic accounts of Holocaust
By Robert Philpot
In this file photo taken on February 22, 2015, Renu Begum, eldest sister of British Islamic State member Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London. (Laura Lean/Pool/AFP)
February 17, 2019, 9:00 am
IS teen’s wish to return stirs UK debate over jihadi brides
As Islamic State members scatter, MI6 chief warns group is ‘morphing, spreading out’ and ‘returning to its natural state as an asymmetric transnational terrorist organization’
By Dmitry Zaks
Screen capture from video of a rubber dinghy used by Iranian migrants to cross the English Channel from France, December 31, 2018. (YouTube)
February 10, 2019, 8:38 pm
Mossad pulled its agent out of Iran, MI6 smuggled him to UK on dinghy – report
Sunday Express says nuclear scientist with knowledge of program in wake of 2015 deal was eventually transferred to US
By Stuart Winer
Jaber al-Lamki, Executive Director for Media and Strategic Communications at the United Arab Emirates' National Media Council, speaks during a press conference in Abu Dhabi on November 26, 2018, announcing a pardon for Briton Matthew Hedges who was sentenced a week before to life in prison for spying. KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
November 26, 2018, 12:54 pm
UAE pardons British academic sentenced to life for spying
Despite claiming to have ‘irrefutable’ evidence of espionage, Emirati president orders release of PhD researcher Matthew Hedges, ending diplomatic headache between allies
By Shatha YAISH
Photo in the German Federal Archives depicts German Jews leaving Germany in the 1930s. (Courtesy Ethan Bensinger)
February 2, 2018, 2:52 am
UK spy agency celebrates agent who saved 10,000 Jews from Holocaust
Head of MI6 honors work of Frank Foley, a 1930s intelligence officer who issued thousands of visas enabling Jewish Germans to escape Nazis
By Stuart Winer and JTA
A Nazi flag outside the German consulate's house on Chestnut Street in Beacon Hill, May 1940. (public domain)
September 4, 2017, 3:48 am
When Boston was America’s ‘capital’ of anti-Semitism
Prewar Boston was a hotbed of ties to Nazi Germany, both public and covert. During the war, Jewish youth paid a bloody price for years of virulent hate
By Matt Lebovic
A still image from the film 'Bridge of Spies,' which tells the story of a Cold War exchange of agents between the US and Soviet Russia (screen capture: YouTube)
December 30, 2016, 6:46 pm
From dead drops to hacking: Moscow spies on world stage
A brief account of some of the most brazen Soviet and Russian espionage over the last few decades
By AFP
Author P.G. Wodehouse in 1930. (Public domain/Wikimedia)
December 30, 2016, 6:59 am
Author P.G. Wodehouse’s apologia of Nazi-Germany broadcasts revealed
Branded a traitor in his native England, humorist began an unpublished memoir of his time being held in Berlin, but manuscript never saw the light of day
By Stuart Winer
Image posted on a militant website on January 14, 2014, shows Islamic State fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP/Militant Website)
March 10, 2016, 7:51 pm
Western security services probe leaked IS personnel files
Sky News gives British intelligence purported details of 22,000 fighters it received from disillusioned ex-jihadist
By Naomi O'leary
British author Frederick Forsyth speaks to journalists in a hotel bar, in central Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Wednesday, March 4, 2009. (Rebecca Blackwell/ AP Photo)
August 30, 2015, 5:37 pm
Author Frederick Forsyth reveals his missions for UK intelligence
Veteran writer says he helped Britain’s MI6 in Africa and East Germany in exchange for research for books
By AFP
This undated image released Thursday, May 23, 2013, by the British Ministry of Defence, shows Lee Rigby, who was identified by the MOD as the serving member of the armed forces who was attacked and killed by two men in the Woolwich area of London (photo credit: AP/MOD)
November 25, 2014, 5:06 pm
UK soldier’s killers were on spies’ radar, say lawmakers
Parliamentary security body says suspect’s key statement was only discovered after the crime
By Jill Lawless
Heavy water reactor facility near Arak, Iran (photo credit: CC-BY nanking2010/Wikipedia/File)
March 17, 2013, 5:37 pm
Iran to try 18 for nuclear scientist deaths
Tehran has accused Israel, US and Britain of being behind the alleged assassinations of at least five nuclear scientists since 2010
Ben Zygier's Australian passport (photo credit: screen capture Channel 10)
From the WebFebruary 20, 2013, 6:55 am
How the Mossad works: The Mystery of Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’
Der Spiegel: Australian intelligence tracked Zygier, two other Israeli-Australians, because of travel to Iran and frequent name changes
September 12, 2012, 2:19 am
MI6 chief was British messenger sent to dissuade Israel from Iran strike
Visit by intelligence official is unprecedented, Daily Mail reports
By Sam Ser and Greg Tepper
The Iranian heavy water reactor at Arak, one of many sites that make up the Iranian nuclear program (CC-BY Nanking10, Wikimedia Commons)
July 15, 2012, 12:05 pm
MI6 chief: Iran two years away from nuclear weapon
Head spy John Sawers says Tehran would have had the bomb by now if not for his agency’s work
By Gabe Fisher
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