MI6 partially lifted the veil of secrecy that has surrounded its operations for the past century with the publication today of the first authorised history of the service. Professor Keith Jeffery, of Queen's University, Belfast, was given unrestricted access to the surviving historic files of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). At a launch at the Foreign Office, Sir John Scarlett, the former SI
The authors Graham Greene, Arthur Ransome, Somerset Maugham, Compton Mackenzie and Malcolm Muggeridge, and the philosopher AJ "Freddie" Ayer, all worked for MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service admitted for the first time today . They are among the many exotic characters who agreed to spy for Britain, mainly during wartime, who appear in a the first authorised history of MI6. The book even r
Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) celebrating the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Roman Shukhevych, a Ukrainian politician and UPA leader, Lviv, June 27, 2010 On summer evenings, the people of the west Ukrainian city Lviv come to sing: under the statue of Taras Shevchenko, the great poet who prophesied Ukrainian independence in the nineteenth centur
Murray Sayle, who has died aged 84 after suffering from Parkinson's disease, was a journalistic legend, but he was also much more interesting than most of that breed. He was a complex, self-contradictory character, sardonic but warm, cynical but principled, who lived in several avatars and in three very different cultures: Australia, where he grew up and to which he returned in old age; Britain, w
Clashes broke out in central Cairo today after hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets to protest against what they claimed were plans for the president's son to assume power. Lines of riot police encircled and attacked demonstrators opposed to Gamal Mubarak outside Abdeen palace, the site of a 19th-century nationalist revolt against monarchical and colonial British rule. It is widely believed t
Hossein Derakhshan, the godfather of Iranian blogging, could face the death penalty in his trial, according to free-speech advocates Global Voices. He has been charged with "collaborating with enemy states, creating propaganda against the Islamic regime, insulting religious sanctity and creating propaganda for anti-revolutionary groups" in a trial that started three months ago. In the words of Jef
Turkish women in a predominantly immigrant district of Berlin this month. Anti-Muslim feelings are rising in Germany.Credit...Sean Gallup/Getty Images BERLIN � As anti-immigrant sentiment continues to sweep across Europe, generating a right-wing populist wave from the shores of the Mediterranean to the chilly reaches of Scandinavia, there is growing concern that such politics could take root here,
David Miliband gave MI6 the green light to proceed with intelligence-gathering operations in countries where there was a possible risk of terrorism suspects being tortured, the Guardian has learned. During the three years Miliband served as foreign secretary, MI6 always consulted him personally before embarking on what a source described as "any particularly difficult" attempts to gain information
Japan today warned that a deepening row over its detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain should not be allowed to fuel "extreme nationalism" on either side. The remarks follow Beijing's abrupt suspension of high-level contacts. China announced the measure in protest at Japan's decision to extend its detention of trawler captain Zhan Qixiong, whose ship collided with two Japanese coastguard ves
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