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 ...

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

Numerous individuals have been credited with coining the phrase, but I tend to believe the references that date back to the ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence agency of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

During the Cold War, the KGB gave Le Monde the code name "Vestnik" ("messenger" in Russian), but the newspaper was also simply referred to as "Monde" in exchanges with Moscow headquarters ...

Andy Soltis, American grandmaster and chess historian There have even been suggestions from some that Campomanes, who passed away in 2010, was an agent of the KGB, an argument Sosonko believes is ...

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