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Andrew David Parker, Baron Parker of Minsmere, GCVO, KCB, PC (born 8 May 1962 [1]), is a British life peer and former intelligence officer who served as Director General of MI5 from 2013 to 2020. He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 2021 to 2024, and is a crossbench member of the House of Lords .
The documents from MI5 have been made public by the National Archives. They detail the investigations into the group that plagued Britain’s secret service for decades.Their story has shocked and ...
[21] In the 2009 ITV programme, Inside MI5: The Real Spooks, Oleg Gordievsky recounted how he saw the head of the British section of the KGB expressing surprise at the allegations that he read in a British newspaper about Hollis being a KGB agent, saying "Why is it they are speaking about Roger Hollis, such nonsense, can't understand it, it ...
The former FRU agent turned whistleblower using the pseudonym "Martin Ingram" said in his 2004 book Stakeknife that Scappaticci eventually developed into valuable Agent 6126, [6] handled by British Army Intelligence via the FRU. Ingram says that Scappaticci's activities as a high-grade intelligence source came to his attention in 1982, after ...
She became Director General of MI5 in October 2002 and, in that capacity, led the Security Service's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Following her retirement in April 2007, she became a crossbench life peer in 2008. [1] She became chair of the Conduct Committee, which is a select committee of the House of Lords, on 19 January 2022.
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet Union were ...
On 21 October 2014, it was announced that he was to become a life peer, having been nominated personally by the Prime Minister "for public service". [18] He was created Baron Evans of Weardale , of Toys Hill in the County of Kent , on 3 December 2014, [ 19 ] and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbench peer. [ 20 ]
The Netflix drama 'Operation Mincemeat,' starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen, is based on the unbelievable true story of a macabre espionage mission.