A conman who posed as an MI6 agent has been extradited to the UK from Switzerland. Mark Acklom, 46, defrauded a Gloucestershire woman out of her life savings of £850,000. He fled the country in 2012 while he was under investigation. He was arrested in Zurich in June 2018 and …
22 February: As part of its outreach programme, the CIA website today reveals that among the many top secret job vacancies available at the Agency is the post of … hairdresser! The website explains that disguise is an important part of the work for CIA field officers and that the …
18 February: The Financial Times (FT) is reporting that the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has already formed a view about the risk posed by Huawei to British and European communications networks. You can read the report on their website: http://www.ft.com (if it has moved, sites such as the BBC …
On 10 February a story appeared in the Sunday Express stating that SIS, Mossad and the CIA had collaborated in an operation to smuggle a nuclear scientist out of Iran and, eventually, into the US. You can read the story here: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1085207/spies-MI6-smuggle-iranian-defector-dinghy-uk-channel The story is strange in that much of …
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson gave a speech at the RUSI on 11 February in which he called for “swarm squadrons of network enabled drones” that would be capable of overwhelming the enemy. He said the first practical trials would be taking place towards the end of 2019 and that …