Britain's Own "Big Brother" Eyed Orwell

George Orwell's left-wing views and bohemian clothes led British police to label him a communist — but the MI5 spy agency stepped in to correct that view, the writer's newly released security file reveals.

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"5 reasons to be cynical: 1) Chilcot himself... 2) Recent history... 3) The composition of the committee... 4) The media... 5) Teflon Tony... the lies, cover-ups, war crimes, torture, etc ... never seem to stick to Tony Blair."

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MI5, MI6 and the police will be able to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases for the first time, the high court ruled today.

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With efforts by the Labour government to suppress evidence of collusion with the United States threatened with collapse, the head of Britain's secret service, MI5, last week made a public defence of the use of torture to obtain evidence against alleged terrorists.

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History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany.

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Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator and founder of the original Axis of Evil, worked as a British agent for MI5 at the start of his career, it has emerged.

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Espionage is not a subject that readily lends itself to public scrutiny.

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It's just like "The Stasi" treated dissidents, except this human rights abuse is happening in Canada today. Some call it no-touch torture. The Stasi (former East German secret police) called it Zerzetsen.

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An article from The Daily Telegraph's chief leader writer questioning whether UK intelligence condones torture, and whether MI6 head is telling the truth.

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Ministers have admitted the Government sent secret agents to interview a British detainee in Afghanistan, supporting allegations MI5 and MI6 officers were present while he was tortured by his American captors.

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MI5 has closed up a flaw on its website that could have opened up visitors to malicious attacks, the UK intelligence agency said.

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Tony Blair was aware of the ­existence of a secret interrogation policy which ­effectively led to British citizens and others being ­tortured during ­counter-terrorism investigations the Guardian can reveal.

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The foreign secretary, David Miliband, told MPs today that he will not allow the public to see the secret interrogation policy that is at the heart of allegations that MI5 has been colluding in the torture of British citizens.

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The police and MI5 must brace themselves to counter a new generation of violent Islamic terrorists, an expert warned today. Home-grown jihadists intent on murdering others in high-profile outrages "will not wither away", Professor Michael Clarke said.

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For ten years a Soviet spy codenamed "Eric" fed Britain's nuclear secrets to Moscow, paving the way for the Cold War. The KGB treasured him as its "main source" of atomic intelligence; MI5 suspected him, trailed him, opened his letters and monitored his every move.

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Repercussions of Condoning Torture on the International Community

Discussing the merits of torture is a distraction. Lest we forget, let me remind you what the crime is: It's wilfully inflicting pain on a person in your power. I find that talking of the “purpose" of torture invariably starts a process of evaluation.

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Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants.

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MI5 secretly tried to hire British men held in Guantanamo Bay and other US prison camps by promising to protect them from their American captors and help secure their return home to the United Kingdom, The Independent has learnt.

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Lawyers for the government have admitted that a senior MI5 officer gave false evidence to the high court in the case of former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed.

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He was James Bond's go-to guy for inventions that included dagger-embedded shoes, radioactive lint and a deadly sofa that swallowed people. Now, Britain's domestic spy agency — MI5 — is hunting for its very own "Q," of sorts.

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Suspects being questioned today after one of the biggest anti-terror operations since the July 7 attacks exploited lax student visa regulations to enter the UK from Pakistan, Whitehall sources said yesterday.

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"Secret Wars" is a story of the British Intelligence over the span of a hundred years, since 1909, when MI5 and MI6 (code-names for the military counter-intelligence and intelligence) were founded to prevent an expected German attack on Great Britain.

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Last month, the British government controversially refused entry to Geert Wilders, enforcing a ban it had placed on the Dutch parliamentarian for his anti-Islam film, Fitna.

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Britain's spies have been seeking guidance from an "ethical counsellor" on how to cope with moral dilemmas.MI5 members have discussed issues like the rights and wrongs of extraordinary rendition and whether the Government was right to try to alter the ideological views of citizen …

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Sajad Suleman, 35, admitted he could not move his arms or legs when he applied to be a Mobile Surveillance Officer but still claimed he should have been the "preferred candidate" out of the 1,092 who applied.

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