Pens that shoot, cameras in matchboxes, poison-tipped umbrellas—the Cold War wasn’t just fought with words. These were the ...

But he’d still have to be careful. On paper, Sellers was an ordinary American diplomat, but the KGB had identified him as a CIA officer and kept him under heavy surveillance. Sellers quickly ...

Despite proposing a brief ceasefire to recover bodies, Russia has continued to reject Ukraine ’s call for a 30-day truce ...

Born in Marc Chagall's hometown in Belarus, the Russian Jewish dancer Valery Panov, who made aliyah to Israel, has died at 87 ...

If they were discovered, the KGB would have no doubt about his real intentions. He was risking his life to escape the suffocating embrace of the KGB, the ultra-secretive Soviet spy agency that had ...

In another document released Tuesday, a teletype US intelligence report dated Nov. 20, 1991, said a KGB official known only as Nikonov or “Slava” investigated whether Oswald “had been a KGB ...

“No,” I replied, “not at all.” Shipler replied: “I think I’ve just avoided a trip to Lefortovo,” the prison fortress of the KGB. Someone had anonymously phoned Shipler in the bureau ...

The claim gained traction when the news website The Daily Beast published a now-deleted story (archived) titled "Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump," using only Mussayev's ...

The Spy in the Archive, a new biography of Vasily Mitrokhin by Gordon Corera, relates his daring deception and flight to the ...

When former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev claimed that US President Donald Trump was recruited as an asset for Moscow in the 1980s, it set off a storm on social media. In a Facebook post on 20 ...

Dylan Earl admits orchestrating an arson attack and plotting to kidnap Russian dissident following help from the ...

The arrest is the first time a U.S. correspondent has been detained in Russia on spying accusations since 1986, when the KGB, the Soviet-era predecessor to the FSB, arrested U.S. News & World ...