The collapse of the trial of two suspected Chinese spies has thrown a spotlight on Beijing’s spooks. But what are their ...

The Spanish Civil Guard’s real-life attempt to infiltrate the ETA terrorist organization forms the basis of this story.

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Roper’s analysis but also his wonderfully ironic and discerning observations. He writes with great style, candour and ...

In the 2010s, the best spy movie had nothing to do with James Bond or Jason Bourne, and this masterpiece was the opposite of ...

Deliberate and attentive, the movie’s procedural heft is borne out of Polanski’s disinclination to omit a single detail.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban secretly sent agents to spy on European Union institutions in Brussels for years, ...

William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

TradecraftBodleian Weston Library, OxfordWednesday, October 8To Monday, April 6, 2026IN 2006 Richard Ovenden, head librarian at the Bodleian, wrote to John le Carré asking whether he might consider ...

Olivér Várhelyi was Hungary's EU ambassador when an alleged spy ring at the embassy tried to recruit European Commission staff to be moles for Hungary. The European Commision president now wants to ...