KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko (left) and the CIA's Jack Platt. In the summer of 1992, Jack Platt, an American, and his Russian best friend, Gennady “Genya” Vasilenko, saw each other for the ...

RIGA, Latvia — A Russian historian was browsing a display on Soviet dissidents in a dim corner of St. Petersburg’s political museum last month when the name on a 1976 KGB search warrant jumped ...

A former UK spy chief has weighed in on the bizarre claims made by an ex-KGB spy that Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian asset over 40 years ago, operating under the codename "Krasnov". The ...

The stories paint a picture of Putin as a master spy and a key figure in the KGB in the 1980s. However, evidence verifying the tales has proven elusive for researchers, until now.

The KGB – known as the MGB until 1954 – recorded its new recruit in its files. It assigned him "Paul" and "Léon" as code names. In 1952, this DST mole was already described as a "valuable agent." ...