A former Concorde engineer speaks to the BBC about discovering he worked alongside a Russian spy at the height of the Cold ...

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A Moscow court sentenced a former Russian diplomat to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony for selling secrets to U.S. intelligence while on a posting to the United States, the Federal Security ...

A new intelligence confrontation is unfolding in Eastern Europe after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Kyiv ...

Behind the “KGB agent” myth was a grinding bureaucracy of surveillance, paperwork, and quiet control—plus the personal compromises that came with it. This chapter follows Putin’s training in ...

Not the 2005 film starring Brangelina, but the Amazon Prime Video reboot-of-sorts that was released last year. This time ...

"It was established that AS Konovalov, an employee of the Russian Foreign Ministry, during a long-term foreign assignment in the United States, proactively transferred secret information to American ...

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 ...

In September 2025, Chris Alexander—formerly Stephen Harper’s immigration minister—told The Walrus that he thought “Giuseppe ...

Geopolitics, natural disasters, and the rising cost of living are to blame. The good news, for travelers? Places they still ...

From elite Russian intelligence operations to global fashion stages, Aliia Roza reveals how a former secret agent reinvented ...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian confirmed on Thursday that Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has told some priests to break a key canonical rule during liturgies as part of his efforts to ...