Stephen Lawrence’s parents are losing confidence that a ‘spy cops’ probe will reveal the truth about why undercover police targeted their family after his murder, their lawyers have said. The Undercover Policing Inquiry was told today how officers circled the Lawrence family, looking to smear them instead of catching their son’s killers. In an opening … Read more
Anti-shutdown protester Piers Corbyn was targeted by Scotland Yard’s undercover police for nearly two decades, a public inquiry heard yesterday. The older brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was the main organiser for squatting groups in London between 1972 and 1982. Mr Corbyn, 73, helped to organise the All London Squatters Federation, the Squatters … Read more
The public inquiry into undercover policing aims to ‘get to the truth’ and make known the full facts about tactics used by police spies over decades, the hearing has been told. In his opening statement delivered via a live video stream on Monday, counsel to the inquiry David Barr QC set out the background to … Read more
Poland’s new abortion laws have been thrown into chaos after a spy mowed down protestors, a glamourous TV presenter quit her job, and the president’s daughter and wife slated the new bill, saying they think women have the right to choose. A spy working for Poland’s equivalent of MI5 has been arrested after ploughing his … Read more
The Prince of Wales thanked secret service staff on both sides of the Atlantic for their work as he visited the top-secret US spy base RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire today. Prince Charles, 71, travelled to the communications and intelligence site near Harrogate, which for the last 60 years has been used by personnel from … Read more
Searching for submarines? Unmanned US ‘spy ship’ powered by solar energy and designed to avoid detection is found off the coast of Scotland A £300,000 Wave Glider boat was found on the coast of Tiree, west Scotland Wave Gliders are used by the US and British navies but it has not been claimed The Russian … Read more
A descendant of mysterious 17th century spy and man of letters Fulke Greville has won an extraordinary battle to reclaim a sword that once belonged to his forebear, amid claims it had been ‘stolen’ from his tomb by the Earls of Warwick. British writer and historian Rene Greville has won possession of the sword after … Read more
Man fathered by police spy wins payout: Scotland Yard agrees substantial compensation over undercover officer who had an affair with animal rights activist he was monitoring in the 1980s Bob Lambert posed as a radical to infiltrate animal rights groups in the 1980s He began a long-term relationship with ‘Jacqui’ and fathered a son known … Read more
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China‘s New York consulate is a major spy hub after a New York City police officer was charged this week with spying for the Chinese government. Pompeo told the New York Post on Thursday that the Trump administration was keep tabs on Chinese diplomats in the United States and there could … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK AGENT SONYA by Ben Macintyre (Viking £25, 416 pp) Her scones were the envy of the Oxfordshire hamlet of Great Rollright, where the friendly woman known as Mrs Burton lived in a stone farmhouse. In her late 30s, she moved there with her three children and husband Len just after the … Read more