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

A total of 38 prisoner swaps were carried out between Russia and Ukraine with the assistance of Belarus, Chairman of the State Security Committee of Belarus (KGB) Ivan Tertel told the media.

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 ...

But when a certain undercover KGB operative spotted the chalk mark as he drove from his compound in The Bronx to his cover job at the United Nations, he would inform his comrades, and they would ...

A s the Soviet Union started to collapse, KGB spies in Brazil may have done their Russian successors a huge favor. Investigators trying to determine how Brazil became an "assembly line" for deep ...

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 ...

A fleet of Russian warships reached Cuban waters this week ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean.

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 ...