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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
Culture / Books & the Arts / In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the ...
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The KGB's spy inside France's Cold War counter-espionage
The archives of KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin challenge ... Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, it had been widely accepted that French counter-espionage and its flagship, the Directorate ...
The Independent15d
Dirk Bogarde and the KGB’s gay entrapment plot: MI5 files reveal secret warning to British film icon
Merifield reassured Bogarde that MI5’s primary concern was to ensure he did not fall victim to a “simple trap” should he ever visit the Soviet Union. “The KGB did not seem to have taken ...
British actor warned by MI5 about gay sting attempt from Russian KGB
MI5 feared film star Dirk Bogarde could be the target of a KGB gay "entrapment" attempt after it emerged he was on a list of 'six practising British homosexuals' passed to the Russians ...
24/7 Wall St1mon
The Average American Can’t Answer These Simple Cold War Questions
Both the United States and the Soviet Union considered espionage critical to their interests in spying and counterintelligence on the other side. The CIA and the KGB were locked in a lengthy (and ...
The Washington Post25d
Burton L. Gerber, CIA officer who boosted Cold War spying, dies at 91
Gerber, who as an operations officer for the CIA pushed for greater risk-taking in spying against the Soviet Union, and who later ... learning curve against the KGB, which was far more experienced ...