Emir Kusturica, the great Serbian director, hops to the other side of the camera to play KGB defector Vladimir Vetrov in the French film "Farewell," from French director Christian Carion. Starring ...

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CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — 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 ...

Years after defecting from Russia and resettling in the US, former KGB officer Alexander Zaporozhsky was lured back to the country he had once betrayed. The CIA warned him not to go. Several senior ...

AS THE TARGET of Lars Hedegaard’s article “The KGB’s Man in Copenhagen” (August 20 / August 27), I am tempted to send a long rebuttal. But reasonable readers have probably by themselves already found ...

PARIS -- Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko had two goals: a long and lingering death for the KGB defector and pointing a finger of accusation for his killing right in the face of Vladimir Putin.

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he had lived ...

Unredacted documents relating to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy have revealed details about Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Soviet KGB defector described by former CIA counter-intelligence ...

PARIS — Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko had two goals: a long and lingering death for the KGB defector and pointing a finger of accusation for his killing right in the face of Vladimir Putin.

In 2006, Russian FSB (formerly KGB) defector Alexander Litvinenko was the victim of a rare and frightening poison: a tiny speck of polonium-210, delivered in a cup of tea, was enough to destroy his ...