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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

MI6 Secret Intelligence Service

Britain's MI6 chief Richard Moore (left) and US Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns are interviewed at a Financial Times event in London, September 7, 2024. (Em Fitzgerald/Pool via Reuters)
September 7, 2024, 5:15 pm
CIA, MI6 chiefs urge truce-hostage deal; Burns calls for ‘hard political compromises’
As new proposal being finalized, spymasters issue unprecedented joint plea for ceasefire to end Gaza civilians’ ‘appalling loss of life’ and hostages’ ‘hellish confinement’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran, March 21, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
July 21, 2022, 10:11 pm
UK spy chief says he doesn’t think Iran supreme leader wants to reach nuclear deal
‘The deal is absolutely on the table but I don’t think the Iranians want it,’ MI6 director tells security forum; CIA chief says Tehran’s advance toward atomic bomb is ‘troubling’
By Shaun Tandon
In this file photo taken in Nov. 15, 2006, George Blake, a former British spy and double agent in service of the Soviet Union, seen in Moscow, Russia (AP Photo, File)
December 26, 2020, 2:12 pm
British-Soviet Cold War double agent George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98
Spy passed names of hundreds of MI6 agents to KGB; escaped London jail with rope ladder; said he hated Nazis ‘because of my background. I was a British subject; I was half-Jewish’
By Max Delany
Alec Guinness in the role of George Smiley (left); ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (Combo photo: Acorn Media and Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 14, 2020, 4:34 pm
Smiley & me? No, no, no! Ex-Mossad chief on his non-link to le Carré’s antihero
UK-born Efraim Halevy was rising in the Mossad while a possible fictional doppelganger was ascending in the ‘Circus.’ But Halevy knows the author’s inspiration came from elsewhere
By David Horovitz
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
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