Sentences with phrase «british intelligence services»

WikiLeaks's latest dump of 9,000 CIA files revealed that US spies, in collusion with British intelligence services, had, as well as targeting smartphones and computers, developed a programme called Weeping Angel, which is allegedly able to turn a television set into a monitoring device — even when it appears to be switched off.

WikiLeaks's latest dump of 9,000 CIA files revealed that US spies, in collusion with British intelligence services, had, as well as targeting smartphones and computers, developed a programme called Weeping Angel, which is allegedly able to turn a television set...

Mr Blair said the story was «literally a fabrication from beginning to end» and that the idea that the British intelligence services would interfere in a presidential campaign was «absurd».

Mr McCluskey told The Guardian that the British intelligence services are involved in «dark practices» which are designed to discredit the leader of the Labour party.

MPs have called for an investigation to be launched into allegations that British intelligence services have «outsourced» the torture of British citizens to Pakistani security agencies.

Abedi, 22, was radicalised during trips to Syria and was previously known to British intelligence services, officials said.

Comey testified along with National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, who also disputed allegations that British intelligence services could have been involved in such wiretapping.

«The information is very personal — the likelihood that it could be used for phishing is very high,» said Matt Tait, a former analyst at the British intelligence service GCHQ and a cyber security researcher.

A stint in MI6, the British intelligence service, during World War II further complicated an already mysterious private world.

A Hong Kong chase sequence goofily parodies the recent trend seen in films like Casino Royale and The Bourne Ultimatum of utilizing parkour is action scenes, while a hilarious nod to corporate sponsorship and movie product placement sees the British Intelligence Service rechristened as the Toshiba British Intelligence Service.

He is approached by British intelligence service MI5 and tasked with a secret mission to obtain information about a British government minister (Roache) and his wife (Hawes), whom he has recently befriended.

About SIS According to SIS's informative website, a formal and permanent British intelligence service was first established in 1909; but the history of British intelligence organizations engaged in foreign intelligence goes back at least to the 15th century (Thomas Cromwell ran secret agents in Europe on behalf of Henry VIII and Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's «spymaster», maintained a network of 50 secret agents abroad and a substantial network in Britain.

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But according to the author of the memo, who is alleged to be a former British intelligence officer, the Russian spy service FSB found a way around the encryption feature.

What pretty much no one knows — until now — is that the famous author of the Chronicles of Narnia was a secret government agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service — the for - real MI6.

The information behind such portrayals doesn't come from the files of secret British and US intelligence services that we're never allowed to see, but from the horrifying testimony of survivors, or those still trapped in areas of ISIS control.

The fifth spot goes to yesterday's story about the legal challenge by three politicians to the blanket surveillance of British citizens by the intelligence service.

The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers (William Collins # 30) explores the evolving relationship between successive British Prime Ministers and agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council.

This year, two British intelligence institutions celebrate their centenaries: the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Seintelligence institutions celebrate their centenaries: the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence SeIntelligence Service (MI6).

The blanket surveillance of British citizens by the intelligence services was challenged in court today in a landmark case brought by three leading politicians.

Once they can no longer appeal to a British consular officer for help, these former citizens may find themselves at the mercy of the Djibouti's intelligence services or the CIA's drone pilots.

Lord Goldsmith is understood to have been warned that the flow of vital intelligence from the Saudi Government to the British secret services could be impaired following a break between the two governments over the contracts, thereby endangering national security, particularly during the war on terrorism.

«It seems increasingly likely that we are either faced with an intelligence service out of control, begging serious constitutional issues, or with ministers secretly agreeing to a policy involving British complicity with torture.

Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Rudd called for the intelligence services to have access to encrypted messages, following the revelation that British extremist Khalid Masood used WhatsApp a few minutes before killing four people in Westminster last week.

I wrote a feature review of Sony's DVD release of Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana, starring Alec Guinness as a meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana who concocts fictional intelligence reports for the British Secret Service, for Turner Classic Movies.

It's the Cold War and the Soviet's have a high ranking mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service serving them up the most sensitive of information.

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After spending much of 1916 in the Pacific researching a novel on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence, in 1917 he was asked by the British Secret Intelligence Service to undertake a mission to Russia.

The Cambridge Five consisted of Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, all Cambridge graduates, who made their careers in various British government agencies including the Secret Intelligence Service.

He is working in a dead - end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center - stage in a dangerous game of espionage.

If you look at the BBC's news website, the headline item is the Khadr interrogation video released as a result of Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Appellants v. Omar Ahmed Khadr Respondent — and — British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Criminal Lawyers» Association (Ontario), University of Toronto, Faculty of Law — International Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Watch Interveners, in which the court held that

The Court allowed the appellants Abdul Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar to sue the British Secret Intelligence Service and the Minister responsible for it at the material time, for a declaration of illegality and for damages.

It will be headed by Sir Peter Gibson, a retired Court of Appeal Judge, who amongst other things headed up the Omagh bombing intelligence review in 2008, and currently is serving as the Intelligence Services Commissioner, a post which involves reviewing actions taken by the Secretary of State under the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the activities of British iintelligence review in 2008, and currently is serving as the Intelligence Services Commissioner, a post which involves reviewing actions taken by the Secretary of State under the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the activities of British iIntelligence Services Commissioner, a post which involves reviewing actions taken by the Secretary of State under the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the activities of British iIntelligence Services Act 1994 and the activities of British intelligenceintelligence.