In Russia, it would recall the transition of the KGB director, Yuri Andropov, to general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1982. In post-Soviet Russia, it would suggest the ascendancy of ...

Thumbnail Image by → www.kremlin.ru It's hard to say when Vladimir Putin began planning his presidential career, but the allure of climbing the ranks through the KGB probably started when he was ...

Ann was, in fact, Elena Vavilova, a deep-cover spy trained by the secret Russian intelligence agency, the notorious KGB. Don, her seemingly pleasant husband, was actually Andrei Bezrukov ...

"If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely threatening case," the CIA concluded. "The aliens possess weapons and technology that surpass all our assumptions. They can defend ...

One by one, these Western intelligence sources were picked up by the Soviet intelligence service, the KGB, interrogated and, very often, executed. Oleg Gordievsky was one of those double agents.

Once the headquarters of the State Protection Authority (similar to the Soviet Union's KGB), the building was where brutal interrogations and the torturing of countless political activists and ...

Colby Itkowitz has covered Washington policy and politics for most of her career. Since coming to the Post in March 2014, she's covered presidential and congressional campaigns, Congress and ...

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