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TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER – MERCENARY?

Media-led outrage over pilots and other service personnel working overseas may be missing the point.

UK’s leading security body elected Russian board member with ties to Putin

Stanford graduate Anna Spiridonova was elected to the board of the UK’s Security Institute – despite her family’s ties to the Kremlin and Putin.

Honeytrap warning goes out to British military as China targets top officials

A Chinese honeytrap spy targeted a British Army officer in a hotel which is the former home of MI6.

Chinese spy convicted of snooping on US defence contractors

FORMER Chicago college student, Ji Chaoqun, has been convicted in Chicago of spying for Chinese intelligence services.

Chinese Tech Dominance – Defining Our Future National Security Threat

Amid the current threat and aggression from Russia, intelligence agencies are ramping up their focus on Beijing.

Porton Down scientists probe secrets of Russian “stealth” tank – helping Ukraine forces down even more

British Intelligence chiefs have uncovered the secrets of Russia’s most sophisticated operational tank.

North Korea: Nuclear loose cannon, or tool of Xi and Putin?

Are we facing nuclear Armageddon? What might precipitate the ultimate nightmare scenario? Joe Biden is worried. On October 6 the US President used the A-word, warning Vladimir Putin that any use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine risked cataclysmic…

Psych Ops: M15 creates elite “Minority Report” unit to counter Russian and Chinese infiltration threats

MI5 has created a new “Minority Report” research centre designed to combat the “insider threat” posed by traitors working for Russia and China. The top-secret unit will be staffed by a team of forensic and clinical psychologists under orders to…

China’s treatment of Uyghurs may amount to crimes against humanity, says UN

CHINA has been accused by the United Nations of large scale imprisonment, systematic rape, enforced sterilisation, and torture against the Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities. An explosive report by Michael Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, details credible…

Indian universities unwittingly enabling North Korean cyber crime, study reveals

North Korean hackers posing as foreign students are weaponising the computer faculties of Indian universities to carry out crimes around the world, according to a shocking new study. Cyber security firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, identified the hackers as state-sponsored…