Vladimir Putin dismissed as “complete nonsense” MI5 allegations that Russian agents want to spread mayhem and chaos in British cities. Answering a question from the BBC at a press conference ...

Russian officials just piped up over MI5′s recent warning Moscow agents are looking to cause “mayhem” on British streets and wrote the claims off as “scare tactics”. On Tuesday, MI5′s ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: MI5 Chief Says Russian Spies Are on Mission Of Mayhem.

An assertion by the head of the UK's MI5 security service that Russia's GRU military intelligence agency is bent on causing chaos across Britain and Europe is baseless and deserves to be ignored ...

The head of the MI5 said Russia and Iran are hiring low-level criminals to undertake sabotage missions and attacks on dissidents in Europe.

Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said. Giving his annual update on security threats faced by ...

Russia is on a 'mission to generate mayhem' on ­British soil, the head of MI5 warned yesterday. In a chilling speech, Ken McCallum said the security service has 'one hell of a job' to do battling ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's GRU military intelligence service is seeking to cause "mayhem" across Britain and Europe, the UK's domestic spy chief said on Tuesday, while a growing threat from ...

MI5 chief Ken McCallum said in a speech on Tuesday that the GRU was "on a sustained mission to generate mayhem on British and European streets: we've seen arson, sabotage and more." ...

Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said.