John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
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Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
Intelligence reports offer information that can avert threats to national security or promote national interests.
Baker will be the sixth woman, first entertainer and first Black woman to enter after a successful petition from her family and fans.
American intelligence has recognised there are four reasons why a ‘normal’ person might be convinced to spy.
ASIO is changing the language it uses to describe violent threats, because it says the current labels, such as “left”, “right” and “Islamic” are no longer fit for purpose.“
Le Carré drew on his own experience to change public perceptions of the world of spying.
Moe Shaik fancies himself as an analyst who can read people well. And yet, he has a rather large blind spot for his leaders – until they fall out with him.
Killing Eve may seem like an ultra-modern take on the spy genre but it is more traditional that it seems.
The former boss of British intelligence has lashed out at spy novelist John le Carré. The novelist is rather pleased.
South Africans seem to be fascinated with the way in which spying is entwined in the country’s politics.
The initial aim of the 1937 Foreign Agents Registration Act was long forgotten: the prosecution of Nazis for interfering with American democracy. But that law is startlingly relevant to the US now.
Intelligence agencies must be incorruptible and ‘speak truth to power’ to be of any benefit to policymakers and the communities they serve.
With its first ever recruitment advert, MI6 is reaching out to women and minority groups. But like their fictional counterparts, will they still end up doing desk work?
Letters of apology are welcome but where is the official inquiry into claims of ill-treatment and rendition by Britain’s spies?
Russia isn’t the only suspect when it comes to the practice known as ‘wetwork’.
South Africa’s intelligence services operate secretly and with minimal oversight. So citizens will probably never know exactly what they are up to.
Far from grasping at Cold War certainties, Le Carré’s Smiley embraces the changing role of the British spy.
Trump’s travel ban is an echo of policies passed in the United States during World War II.
On the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth – A Clockwork Orange had a profound influence on the cultural and political landscape.
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University London
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Associate Fellow in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Reader in Journalism, City, University of London
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London
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PhD Candidate in War Studies, King's College London
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Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oklahoma
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Professor of History, Director of Latin American Studies Program, Bowdoin College
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Professor of the Practice of Mediation, University of Notre Dame
