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Priti Patel (R) meets Alejandro Mayorkas, US Secretary of Homeland Security, Washington DC, 17 November 2021. (Photo: Priti Patel / Twitter)

Priti Patel was part of CIA-linked lobby group with husband of Assange judge

29 March 2022

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Robert Dudley (left), then BP’s chief executive, meets with Vladimir Putin in 2011. (Photo: Kremlin)

Under Putin, MI6-linked BP extracted Russian oil worth £271 billion

17 March 2022

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A B-52 Stratofortress arrives at RAF Fairford in 2018. (Photo: USAF / Ted Daigle)

‘Deceitful activities’: US expands its intelligence and military presence in UK

9 February 2022

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Partygate inquisitor-in-chief Sue Gray (Photo: Parliament TV)

Partygate referees: why are they so spooky?

31 January 2022

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Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was funded by Le Cercle in 2019. (Photo: Dan Kitwood / Getty)

Secret ‘CIA-funded’ group linked to UK ministers

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9 December 2021

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Jack Morton (centre) was a colonial police chief in India (Photo: Morton’s papers)

MI5 report on Troubles to stay secret, court rules

6 December 2021

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Salman Abedi holding heavy gun.

Manchester bombing: What are the security agencies hiding?

4 December 2021

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GCHQ’s site at Little Sai Wan appears in the distance (Photo: H. Grobe / CC 3.0)

‘Riddled with corruption’: GCHQ’s banned book

25 November 2021

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Duckpool Bay, downstream from GCHQ’s Cornwall site. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Revealed: GCHQ leaked 10,000 litres of contaminated water into Cornwall stream

24 November 2021

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Australian naval commanders and assistant defence minister Andrew Hastie welcome a UK nuclear-powered submarine to Perth. (Photo: RAN / Richard Cordell)

Partners in crimes? The UK/Australia special relationship

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5 November 2021

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Congo’s prime minister Patrice Lumumba with UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1960. (Photo: Ben Martin / Getty)

Did Britain help murder an African leader and U.N. secretary general?

26 October 2021

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Former British army intelligence officer Colin Wallace (Photo: Michael Oswald / Independent POV)

FILM REVIEW: “The man who knew too much”

4 October 2021

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A soldier fits Western journalists with gas masks before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. More than 600 journalists were embedded in military units. (Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty)

How British journalists are seduced by the Ministry of Defence and spooks

28 September 2021

Tagged MI6
Yunus Khales with President Ronald Reagan at the White House on 12 November 1987 (Photo: Dirck Halstead / Getty Images)

MI6 helped Bin Laden ally get medical treatment

20 September 2021

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British intelligence backed Afghan mujahideen from Jamiati Islami in the 1980s.

How MI6 backed ‘right-wing religious fanatics’ in Afghanistan

4 September 2021

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A British soldier grabs a civil rights protester on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 when 13 civilians were shot dead by paratroopers. (Photo: Getty Images)

Impunity for killings in service of the state: the UK government’s latest scheme

26 July 2021

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Why I took the police to court over a 48-year-old secret document

15 July 2021

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What was Britain’s most senior police officer doing with MI6?

8 July 2021

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Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are flouting environmental legislation

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1 June 2021

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Revealed: The UK’s largest intelligence agency is a significant emitter of greenhouse gases

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7 May 2021

Tagged GCHQ

Will UK security agencies learn lessons from their collusion in crimes in Northern Ireland?

29 April 2021

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Britain’s secret political police

16 March 2021

Tagged Police

Whitewashing Britain’s largest intelligence agency

10 February 2021

Tagged BooksGCHQ
David Cameron walks with Libyan rebels upon his arrival at Benghazi Airport on 15 September 2011 (Photo: Stefan Rousseau / AFP via Getty)

Did the UK’s secret Libya policy contribute to the Manchester terror attack?

16 December 2020

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