MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for help to banish him from US
British agency concluded that actor – described by US counterparts as 'parlour Bolshevik' – was no security riskMI5 opened a file on Charlie Chaplin while he was being hounded by J Edgar Hoover's FBI for alleged communist sympathies.The FBI, which ...
Stop The War: A Graphic History
Gallery: A new book celebrates a decade of the Stop the War movementRichard Norton-Taylor
Mackenzie memoirs banned for spilling spy secrets to be republished
Sir Compton Mackenzie was prosecuted in 1932 for revealing information about intelligence service in Greek MemoriesThe first world war memoirs of Sir Compton Mackenzie are to see the light of day 78 years after they were banned after the intervention o...
I was not a Nazi collaborator, PG Wodehouse told MI5
Creator of Jeeves was upset at British criticism of his wartime broadcasts from BerlinPG Wodehouse was questioned by MI5 as a suspected collaborator for broadcasting from Berlin during the second world war. The creator of Jeeves protested that he was s...
Historian who explored MI6 secrets
Keith Jeffrey, professor British history at Queen's, Belfast, was picked to write the inside story of MI6Keith Jeffery, author of the first – and possibly only – official history of MI6, said today he had made a "Faustian pact" that had in some cas...
Graham Greene, Arthur Ransome and Somerset Maugham all spied for Britain, admits MI6
Secret Intelligence Service's first authorised history aims to debunk James Bond 'licence to kill' mythThe authors Graham Greene, Arthur Ransome, Somerset Maugham, Compton Mackenzie and Malcolm Muggeridge, and the philosopher AJ "Freddie" Ayer, all wor...
Pervez Musharraf uses Hay festival to hint at possible return to power
'Many people are asking that I should come back,' says former president of Pakistan - citing 200,000-strong Facebook 'fan club'
Pakistan's former president, Pervez Musharraf, tonight used the Hay festival to help launch a possible return to power. He said he could still lead his country out of its...
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