Michael Bettaney News Today

Telly picks for the coming week... Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir New Series: The second series begins with 'London: Peregrine Falcon'. Jim Moir and his wife Nancy continue their ornithological adventure, journeying to a different area of the UK in each episode to spot and paint the unique species of birds native to

Mrs Thatcher was told Sir Geoffrey Howe had asked to see the Security Commissions full investigation into the case of Michael Bettaney, an MI5 spy who was jailed for 23 years in April 1984.

Files about alleged Soviet infiltration in MI5 and a plot centred on the former Labour PM are still missing, says author and former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor

The memo was part of a package of 'radical steps' after asylum applications rose to more than 84,000 in 2022 

Willie Carlin – Tory Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher’s favourite spy in Ireland – has died, the Sunday World has learned.

After learning his trade during the Troubles, as the Soviet threat receded he shifted MI5’s attention towards terrorist groups

By David Burke. George Blake has just died aged 98 at his dacha outside Moscow where Putin’s overseas intelligence service, the SVR, was protecting him from Covid-19. Blake was held in high esteem by the Russians. Putin has said that the “memory of this legendary person will be preserved forever in our hearts”. Putin awarded him a medal in 2007. Blake was arrested in London in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years imprisonment but escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 with the aid of Sean Bourke...