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UK spies: Charlie Chaplin's real name a mystery
Feb 16, 2012 19:06 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - The real name and birthplace of legendary silent-film star Charlie Chaplin is shrouded in mystery, Britain's domestic spy agency concluded after a probe into U.S. claims he was a communist sympathizer, documents released on Friday revealed.
Charlie Chaplin's real name a mystery says UK spies
Feb 16, 2012 19:06 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - The real name and birthplace of legendary silent-film star Charlie Chaplin is shrouded in mystery, Britain's domestic spy agency concluded after a probe into U.S. claims he was a communist sympathizer, documents released on Friday revealed.
MI5 papers show Britain feared Nazi 'spyclists'
Mar 08, 2010 00:38 EST
Scouting for Hitler: Secret papers show Britain feared teenage Nazi 'spyclists' before WWII. Clouds of war were gathering over Europe, and the English police officer was concerned. A group of black-clad Germans had been spotted heading for London ? by bicycle.
Mussolini paid well as British agent in WWI
Oct 14, 2009 10:20 EDT
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini paid big bucks to work as British agent in World War I. A historian says Benito Mussolini was well paid as a British agent during World War I.
UK spooks used Hitler insults to get PM to listen
Oct 05, 2009 11:17 EDT
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British intelligence officers played on former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's pride to get him to take notice of Adolf Hitler's aggressive ambitions on the eve of World War Two, a new book reveals.
British spies: growth in Islamist threat halted
Oct 05, 2009 09:58 EDT
New book: British spy service thinks the threat from Islamist terrorism has stopped growing. Britain's domestic spy service thinks the threat from Islamist terrorism has stopped growing but remains severe, with terrorists eager to acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to the first authorized history of the agency.
First official history of MI5 spooks published
Oct 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
The first official history of MI5 was published on Monday, ending 100 years of secrecy over British spying during two world wars, the Cold War and the current fight against Islamic extremism.
First official history of MI5 spooks published
Oct 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
The first official history of MI5 was published on Monday, ending 100 years of secrecy over British spying during two world wars, the Cold War and the current fight against Islamic extremism.
First official history of Britain's MI5 published
Oct 04, 2009 20:00 EDT
The first official history of Britain's MI5 was published on Monday, ending 100 years of secrecy over British spying during two world wars, the Cold War and the current fight against Islamic extremism.
Book: MI5 kept a secret file on Harold Wilson
Oct 03, 2009 09:36 EDT
Authorized book on Britain's domestic spy service shows that MI5 kept file on Harold Wilson. A new book shows that Britain's domestic spy agency kept a secret file on former Prime Minister Harold Wilson ? a leader who had Eastern European contacts and who had long believed MI5 was bugging him.
UK papers record Sam Wanamaker's early career
Sep 01, 2009 14:56 EDT
To be or not to be a Communist? British security papers record Sam Wanamaker's early career. When American actor and director Sam Wanamaker moved to Britain in the 1950s after learning he was blacklisted after the McCarthy hearings in the U.S., he was paranoid about drawing the attention of the authorities.
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