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UK prosecutors consider torture charges against officers from MI5 and MI6

Gordon Rayner and Duncan Gardham Telegraph 02/11/2010
The secret double identity of murdered spy: Friend insists Gareth Williams was not gay - and was being trained by MI6 for undercover role

The spy found dead in a sports bag had been given a new identity by his MI6 bosses in the months leading up to his mysterious death. Gareth Williams, a GCHQ codebreaker on secondment to MI6, had two passports and told his best friend that he was preparing for an undercover operation.

UK prosecutors consider torture charges against officers from MI5 and MI6

Senior prosecution lawyers are being consulted by police over the possibility of bringing criminal charges against two British intelligence officers suspected of complicity in torture.

Are you 00 or Oh no? MI6 puts test for would-be spies online

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to complete the quiz below – without peeking at the answers. If you pass, you might be suited to a job at MI6.

UK spy agency MI6 "not complicit in torture": chief

LONDON — Britain's foreign spy chief denied Friday that agents tortured terror suspects or that Britain colluded with countries that use torture.

Terror bomb plot intelligence came from MI6's Pakistan operation

Vikram Dodd, Nick Watt and Martin Wainwright The Guardian 04/10/2009
British intelligence chief's security compromised by wife's Facebook postings

The new head of MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, was at the centre of an embarrassing security row yesterday after it emerged that his wife had posted personal information and intimate family photographs on the internet.

Terror bomb plot intelligence came from MI6's Pakistan operation

Key intelligence that led to security officials fearing a terrorist cell was to launch a large-scale bomb attack on British soil came from MI6 operations targeting Pakistan, the Guardian has learned.