Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorate the friendship of the US and the Soviet Union. A hand-carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States. The ambassador ...

How she amused KGB agents from Russia and the Soviet Union in bed. Everything is referenced in a book titled “The Mitrokhin- The KGB in the world(sic)." An archive of the post can be found here.

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

Documents reveal how the monarch was not told the full story about Anthony Blunt, a Soviet mole inside MI5 and member of the Cambridge spy ring, until nearly a decade after his confession ...

They shed new light on the Cambridge Five, a spy ring linked to Cambridge University in the 1930s, whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from ... to Russia’s KGB spy agency while ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, newly declassified documents reveal.

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 ...

They shed new light on a spy ring linked to Cambridge University in the 1930s, whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the ... to Russia’s KGB spy agency. In one of the newly ...

and even keys to filing cabinets inside KGB headquarters. The files show Philby’s betrayal of Volkov as one of his greatest coups for the Soviet Union. In his report from Istanbul, Philby ...