Recently pardoning 14 convicts, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko was guided by the humanitarian aspect and the ...

Foreign spies were among the 14 convicts pardoned recently by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Chairman of the ...

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 ...

But the KGB never lost sight of what might be called the Leamas Archetype in scouting and selecting prospective Western agents for recruitment among what was, and no doubt remains, an ample pool ...

“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 ...

Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press) was written by a pair of American Cold War scholars, John Haynes and Harvey Klehr, and a former KGB officer and journalist ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S.

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 ...

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 ...