WASHINGTON — American journalists working in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s were "compromised" by the KGB and recruited as possible agents, newly released documents show. Yuri Nosenko, a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been portrayed as an elite KGB intelligence officer in the 1980s. But a new report from Der Spiegel suggests he was never the super spy he was thought to be. His ...

Throughout the 1970s, Victor Sheymov rose quickly through the hierarchy of the KGB, the spy agency of the Soviet Union. He was assigned to the Eighth Chief Directorate, perhaps the KGB’s most ...

CAMBRIDGE, England -- The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage. Original documents from one of the biggest intelligence ...

KYIV -- In November 1979, Vital Fedorchuk, head of the Ukraine branch of the Soviet KGB, wrote a top-secret memo to the head of the republic's Central Committee, warning of a grave plot by Western ...

FILE PHOTO: Copies of Russian files gathered by the KGB on Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of U.S. Presi.. By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - Vadim Bakatin, a liberal politician who briefly ...

AS soon as he sipped his glass of Armenian brandy, Oleg Gordievsky knew he was in a fight for his life. If he could only keep ...

After President Biden’s face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva last week, I couldn’t help but think of my trip to Russia in 1993. I was on a congressional delegation visiting Moscow when ...

ALIIA ROZA: I was born into the family of a high-ranking officer, my father, in 1984, and when I turned 18 years old, he brought me to the military investigation department fighting against human- and ...

As his star was rising in the church, long before he was made a cardinal, Theodore McCarrick was targeted by the Soviet Union as a possible intelligence asset, according to the long-awaited Vatican ...

MOSCOW -- Vadim Bakatin, the last chief of the Soviet Union's Committee of State Security, widely known under its Russian acronym KGB, has died at the age of 84. Russian state television reported ...

The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage. Original documents from one of the biggest intelligence leaks in history — a ...