Robert Rodriguez set to reboot popular Spy Kids franchise with adventures of multicultural family

Robert Rodriguez set to reboot popular Spy Kids franchise with adventures of multicultural family By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 02:07 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 02:07 GMT, 28 January 2021 Robert Rodriguez will reboot the ‘Spy Kids’ franchise. The 52-year-old director will return to the spy comedy series as he will write and helm a … Read more

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in new trailer for spy thriller The Courier

Benedict Cumberbatch is the unassuming salesman sent to infiltrate Russia’s KGB during The Cold War in new trailer for spy thriller The Courier By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 18:04 GMT, 27 January 2021 | Updated: 19:51 GMT, 27 January 2021 Benedict Cumberbatch plays an unassuming businessman swept into a MI6 mission in upcoming true-life spy … Read more

Suspected Chinese spy ‘is caught hiding in a wardrobe at Navy base RNAS Yeovilton’

A suspected Chinese spy has been found hiding in a wardrobe at a Navy base where she had been staying for a fortnight with her aircraft technician lover, according to reports. The woman is said to have been caught hiding among her lover’s jumpsuits at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset. The Navy base is home to … Read more

Czech spy ‘targeted Royal Family through Lord Snowdon in 1970s’ 

Czech spy ‘targeted Royal Family by meeting Queen’s brother-in-law Lord Snowdon twice in 1970s’ Communist spies allegedly tried to infiltrate the Royal Family during Cold War Czech agent ‘Krupsky’ posed as embassy official to meet Lord Snowdon Suggested he discussed Royal trip to Soviet Union and possible photo exhibition with Princess Margaret’s husband By William Cole … Read more

Drones: British Army is testing autonomous ‘bugs’ that can fly in strong winds and spy on enemies

British Army is testing tiny autonomous ‘bug drones’ that can fly in strong winds of 50mph and spy on enemies more than a mile away ‘The Bug’ was developed by the British defence firms BAE Systems and UAVTEK It is a fist-sized recon drone that weighs just 6.7 oz — the same as a smartphone … Read more

Putin celebrates 100th anniversary of Russian spy agency behind major US cyberattack

Vladimir Putin has given his personal backing to the Russian intelligence agency accused of launching a massive cyberattack against the US government.   The Kremlin leader appeared at the headquarters of the SVR, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, to mark its 100th anniversary on Sunday. While not referring to hacking, Putin lauded the work of intelligence agents … Read more

Did John le Carré steal the real story of an MI6 spy for one of his bestsellers?

It was December 1996 and my father had just bought a copy of John le Carré’s newly published spy thriller, The Tailor Of Panama. When he saw that the book’s hero had almost the same surname as him, he smiled.  But the further he read, the more the coincidences began to pile up, and by … Read more

US ‘is set to charge spy chief who was Gaddafi’s brother-in-law’ over 1988 plane bomb horror 

A second new suspect in the Lockerbie bombing has been unearthed by US prosecutors as they prepare to charge the suspected bombmaker, the Daily Mail can reveal. The American authorities are set to request the extradition of former Libyan intelligence officer Abu Agila Mohammad Masud in connection with the attack, which killed 270 people in … Read more

I spy with my little eye: GCHQ chief reveals Christmas cards with brainteaser

I spy with my little eye: GCHQ chief reveals Christmas cards featuring ‘fiendish’ festive bauble-shaped brainteaser sent to agents across the world Director of GCHQ Jeremy Fleming sent the letters to colleagues across the world However the spy chief has also today made them public so everyone can have go On the front is circuit … Read more

John Le Carré’s childhood betrayal that forged a master spy writer

His books are a masterclass in the dark arts of concealment, offering up their secrets stealthily, with one invariably leading on to another. But figuring out their author, the spy writer John Le Carré, is like peeling off layers of the Russian dolls made famous by the TV adaptation of his most successful novel, Tinker … Read more