A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...

Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to ...

The BBC's 'Killing Eve' prequel about Fiona Shaw's Carolyn Martens is called 'Honey', set in the Cold War and comes from Sid Gentle and Emma Moran.

Historians consider Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War, one of the era’s most important informants.

State-backed espionage in Britain is at its worst since the Cold War, a counter-terror commander has warned after a cell was convicted of spying for Russia. Six ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died in England at the age of 86.

Ben Macintyre, author of a book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordievsky managed “in a secret way to launch the beginning of the end of the Cold War.” ...

Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's Most Valuable Cold War Spy Inside the KGB, Dies at 86 LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly ...

He was the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War. Documents declassified in 2014 showed that Britain considered Gordievsky so valuable that then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ...

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