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MI5 watched NHS founder Aneurin Bevan for more than 20 years — declassified files

Declassified documents released to the National Archives show that MI5 kept the NHS founder Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan under surveillance from the 1930s. The service was interested in his links with communists, and in 1949 the MI5 director Sir Percy Sillitoe personally warned Prime Minister Clement Attlee about Bevan's friendship with a convicted Soviet spy. The file was only closed in 1975, 15 years after the politician's death.

Sevara Azamova

22 Oct 2026 · 15:523 min read

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MI5 files declassified: how in 1965 a British soldier selling secrets to Iraq and Egypt was caught

The UK National Archives has released documents on an operation codenamed Gospel: in March 1965, soldier and duty sergeant at the Ministry of Defence Peter Allen was arrested for selling secret plans concerning Lebanon and Kuwait to agents of the Iraqi and Egyptian embassies. He received 10 years in prison.

Javlon Tursunov

22 Oct 2026 · 04:074 min read

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Former MI5 chief: far-right violence has become a 'real problem' for British intelligence

Former MI5 head Jonathan Evans said the rise of organised far-right violence in Britain has become a serious threat, partly due to information operations by hostile states. MI5 Director Ken McCallum noted a rise in cases with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim motives, and in May the terror threat level was raised to 'severe' for the first time in almost five years.

Javlon Tursunov

20 Oct 2026 · 19:153 min read

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Former UK national security adviser urged stronger protection against Russian 'hybrid attacks'

Lord Ricketts told the BBC that the UK should spend more on defence and infrastructure resilience as Russia's hybrid attacks become 'more reckless'. His remarks came after the MI5 chief's speech about a fourfold rise in state threats over a decade.

Aziz Karimov

17 Oct 2026 · 18:072 min read

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MI5 chief: Russia remains 'aggressor number one', Iran expands hybrid campaign

MI5 director Ken McCallum said in his annual speech that Russia remains the 'aggressor number one' and is waging hybrid warfare against Europe while staying below NATO's Article 5 threshold. He also reported more than 50 arrests in Iran-related cases and an incident at RAF Fairford, which Prime Minister Andy Burnham linked to the IRGC.

Otabek Yusupov

13 Oct 2026 · 19:273 min read