Real-life spies say their world is nothing like that of James Bond, but in one way truth may soon follow fiction: MI6 could be about to get its first woman leader.

A fake tape of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher arguing over the Falklands War had the British secret ... enough that the CIA and Britain's MI6 had sought to establish whether the Soviet ...

In a post on social media, he said: "Ukraine has been seeking peace since the very first second of the war, and we have always ... Jamal Khashoggi, the Gulf state has sought to grow its soft ...

Burgess became a journalist after he left university, but on the outbreak of war joined MI6. Maclean was in the Foreign Office during the same period. In 1951, tipped off by Philby that they were ...