Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally ...

Merifield reassured Bogarde that MI5’s primary concern was to ensure he did not fall victim to a “simple trap” should he ever visit the Soviet Union. “The KGB did not seem to have taken ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not told officially for nearly a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had admitted he was a ...

The archives of KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin challenge ... Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, it had been widely accepted that French counter-espionage and its flagship, the Directorate ...

Poland may stop granting passports to relatives of Poles deported to the former Soviet Union in the 1940s ... t know if he is part of the Russian KGB,” he said. “We need to know if these ...

They shed new light on a spy ring linked to Cambridge University in the 1930s, whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the ... to Russia’s KGB spy agency. In one of the newly ...

Drawing on extensive new material, including unpublished diaries, private letters, and KGB interrogation transcripts ... They cannot take credit for the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union, but by ...

Anthony Blunt, a royal art historian, confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviets, but the late queen was not officially told ...

Because the Jews of the Soviet Union were not allowed to speak ... That same night they punished the perpetrators of the KGB plot to catch the Jews "in the act" of hijacking the airplane.

This unit was created in 1991 after Ukraine emerged from the demise of the Soviet Union. During its first thirteen years the ... The SBU is the successor to the Ukrainian branch of the KGB. After ...

Putin, a former KGB spy who took the Kremlin's top job just eight years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin who died at his dacha ...