| 单词 | KGB |
| 例句 | But when he appeared at his girlfriend's hotel room door, she rejected him, saying that she had fallen in love with a KGB colonel—not a traitor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets would never know—not until the KGB could get a scientist inside the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ames gambled that as chief of counterintelligence for the Soviet division of the CIA, approaching the KGB couldn't be simpler. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What Blake could not know was that the KGB agent, Nikolai Loenko, had been watching him for months, hoping to draw him into conversation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the year came to a close, some people inside the CIA began to fear that the problem lay not with the relative strength of the KGB but deep inside the Agency itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After months in the KGB prison, including seventy days in solitary confinement, Powers learned that the Soviet government intended to put him on trial for espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, in late March, the KGB got a break. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Surrounded on all sides by the Red Army and by units of the KGB, West Berlin floated like an island in a hostile, turbulent sea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This new, halting relationship between two old enemies would demand more of the CIA and KGB, as America and Russia asked hard questions about each other's intentions—and motives. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The quiet urban scene was a carefully staged KGB setup. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By 1983, the surge in superpower hostility had made life in the KGB's London residency even more oppressive than usual. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Because Rodin was known to MI6, the Soviets assigned Blake a new KGB contact, Sergei Kondrachev, who worked in the Soviet embassy in London as a junior official in charge of cultural events. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Very valuable,” Kurchatov said of the material provided by the KGB. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, records released by the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, indicated he was right. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Hathaway's job was to keep the CIA from being penetrated by moles from rival spy services—above all, the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, making sure no one was in the hall, he would take out a key, unlock a door on the third floor, and enter the secret New York City headquarters of the KGB. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in London, Blake slipped quietly into his new routine of spying on England for the KGB—all the while pretending to spy on the Soviets for MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To the KGB, Blake was henceforth known by his code name: DIOMID, or "diamond." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With this setup, she was able to communicate by radio with her KGB bosses in Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To them, the answer to why she thought she wasn't being tailed was simple: She lacked the experience to pick up on her KGB surveillance team. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And then he walked into the Soviet embassy on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, DC, and handed the guard a letter for the KGB agent in charge. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He kept a checklist of each piece of equipment he carried with him, as anything left behind might alert the KGB to his tampering. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Was he also a secret agent for the KGB? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the KGB came up with a scheme that would serve as a kind of smoke screen for Blake's spying on behalf of Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was an experienced spy and courier for KGB agents in New York, and she was in New Mexico to meet Ted Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One night, on the New York City subway, a KGB courier named Zalmond Franklin ran into an old friend, Clarence Hiskey. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The KGB alerted an official from the US embassy, who joined Marti at the table. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The stolen information was translated into secret code and sent by telegram to KGB headquarters in Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the night, a group of KGB and military leaders had arrested Gorbachev at his vacation dacha and announced a state of emergency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “T. H. is nineteen years old,” Kurnakov reported to his KGB contact in New York—Kurnakov was, in fact, a spy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the ten-by-six-foot chamber known as "the bubble" offered total protection from prying KGB ears. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But Marti privately took some pleasure in imagining the scene in KGB headquarters on Monday morning. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The cable contained the results of the initial interview conducted by David Shorer with the most important KGB defector in a generation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By the fall of 1942, this was making KGB officials in Moscow very angry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If Kalugin was wondering what the KGB had in mind for him, he soon found out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was not seen as an unusual request from a senior KGB official like Yurchenko, who regularly toured the city to meet secretly with agents he was running against the CIA and other Western powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Like all CIA operatives, Marti strapped to her body an SRR-100, a special radio receiver that allowed her to pick up the radio transmissions of KGB surveillance teams that might be tailing her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Everything Yurchenko said to the CIA made its way back to the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z KGB watchers, Ken knew, were experts at blending into a crowd. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "From the first I was curious as to how Gardner had gotten even as far as he had in breaking into the KGB code system," Lamphere said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Did her lack of training blind her to KGB surveillance? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z KGB surveillance teams trailed, photographed, and harassed every known or suspected CIA employee in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Betting that his former KGB friends would offer him refuge, Blake devised a plan to escape to the East. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "You see the way things are here, Mischa," the KGB chief said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But as it turned out, the Americans had no interest in settling scores with the Stasi or even the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "I worked in that organization for more than thirty years and I want to tell you how the KGB works against the best interests of democratic forces in this country." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Like the Stasi in East Germany, much of the KGB's work in Russia had nothing to do with chasing foreign spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Was the KGB's discovery of the Berlin Tunnel a charade? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That man was the local head of the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB had just promoted him to rezident of the KGB's London station, putting him in charge of all spying operations in the British capital. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Rather, the KGB acted as the all-powerful police force for the Soviet Communist Party—imprisoning dissenters, intimidating critics, and silencing opponents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Closing the border between East and West Berlin was not the idea of the KGB, the Soviet army, or anyone in the Kremlin: It was the brainchild of Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's hard-line communist leader. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of KGB officers descended on Moscow, backed by troops and tanks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Soon after receiving Gold’s report, Yatzkov slipped away from his desk, walked up to the KGB office on the top floor, coded the report, and sent it to Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, amid such intense suspicion of the British, no one seemed to take note of the double agent inside the KGB's London residency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When, just three weeks earlier, his KGB bosses had recalled him to Moscow from London, Gordievsky feared that he might disappear immediately into the bowels of Lefortovo Prison, the KGB dungeon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z No KGB official had ever taken a public stand against the organization inside the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hall’s offer to provide information had been accepted by the KGB, Kurnakov said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Over weeks of secret interviews, Blake and the KGB came to an agreement: He would provide the Soviet Union with information about any MI6 espionage operations, whether against Russia or its allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Blake's handlers inside the KGB went to great lengths to shield him from MI6's counterespionage teams, who were always on the lookout for traitors and double agents within their ranks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Had he cooperated with the KGB interrogators, as many suspected? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For nine years, Ames delivered to the Soviets a steady stream of secrets, betraying more than one hundred CIA operations against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, in late 1943, the KGB got its first big break. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, Bobby’s fears were thought by some to be incipient paranoia, and although it was highly unlikely that the KGB was plotting against him, even paranoids can have real enemies. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z All seasoned KGB agents knew that the call to return to Moscow meant serious trouble. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The two senior officials had been meeting to explore ways that the CIA and KGB might work together, now that the Soviet Union was crumbling from within. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Kalugin would learn throughout the day, his mysterious protector was not the only KGB agent or soldier opposed to the coup. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB men had drugged and interrogated him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "The KGB messages were to change my life," he recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the weeks following Howard's disappearance, in August and September of 1985, Yurchenko huddled with the CIA at the safe house, telling Hathaway and Ames everything he knew about the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The new wave of reformers saw the KGB as not just a symptom of the USSR's problem but the root of the problem itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z During these early months of her Moscow assignment, Marti knew that her fellow CIA agents could not truly accept that the KGB hadn't noticed her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As a senior KGB official, Gordievsky knew well the penalty for sharing Soviet secrets with the enemy: a long sentence in a prison camp or, more likely, execution by firing squad. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He had no intention of being caught, or interrogated, by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a curious statement, but Tom Hannah brushed it off and let Yurchenko walk out; though he was under the care of the CIA, the KGB defector was not a prisoner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The highest-ranking KGB official ever to defect to the CIA had simply walked away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They carried a few belongings and a secret phone number supplied by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He had shaken the KGB tail, and he secured his ticket. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The two young men crossed Red Square, just a few steps from the Kremlin and the majestic Saint Basil's Orthodox Cathedral...and only a short walk from the headquarters of the KGB, in Lubyanka Prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the 1980s, the KGB had begun marking suspected foreign agents with an invisible radioactive dust that could be picked up with radiation sensors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In fact, her name was Ruth Werner, and she was a spy for the KGB. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If Ken did not return by a specific time, she was to gather the children and leave immediately, knowing that her husband had been nabbed by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Oleg Gordievsky's career as a double agent had landed him right in the middle of one of the most dangerous standoffs of the Cold War—and into scalding-hot water with the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A KGB technical crew drilled a pinhole into the ceiling of his living room and photographed him in action. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Later he learned that the officer had sent a message to the KGB, confirming that Gordievsky was now on Soviet soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A few months later he was summoned to the 'Big House’, the headquarters of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This mole had provided the KGB with detailed knowledge of the very operation that Bill Harvey had worked for months to keep hidden. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “One died taking out a KGB command post,” came another awed voice. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z George Blake's career as the KGB's most successful deep-penetration agent was wrapped in such carefully orchestrated deceptions. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His outlook infected the entire CIA, making it a place where no one could be trusted, and where potential Soviet recruits were assumed to be double agents sent by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "I quickly jumped in," Blake recalled, "and was driven at high speed to a safe flat in the neighborhood of Karlshorst," the main Soviet military and KGB compound in East Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe the driver of the passing bus worked for the KGB? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z An embittered Howard took those secrets, including the identity of Tolkachev, "the Billion Dollar Spy," directly to the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The entire city fell under the command of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB, the USSR's powerful and fearsome spy agency, which kept watch over foreigners and Soviet citizens alike. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "I wonder how many KGB officers lost their jobs," she mused to herself, "when they found no continuous record of what I had done since arriving in Moscow on November 5, 1975." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB didn't believe him, but even under the influence of drugs, Gordievsky had somehow kept the truth from his interrogators. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In Moscow, KGB officers were intensely frustrated by how little they’d uncovered about the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Penkovsky went to trial, the KGB had assembled an airtight case, complete with pictures of him working with stolen military files. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Had someone tipped off the KGB to Gordievsky's double role, or were they just fishing for clues? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The rezident of the Soviet embassy in Washington approached Victor Cherkashin, a veteran KGB officer and spy handler, as soon as Cherkashin stepped out of his car in the compound's secure parking lot. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And that's because the double agent Cherkashin was running inside the highest ranks of the CIA was far more valuable to him than punishing a single renegade KGB colonel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Markus Wolf had waited out the fall of communism and now watched the dissolution of his longtime protector, the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A new generation of agents would have to come on the scene, more than a decade later, before the United States was ready to make its next move against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By that point, nearly every effort to send a US agent behind the Iron Curtain had failed; the KGB was simply too well entrenched and too vigilant for the Americans to sneak past its nets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His personnel file painted the picture of a CIA agent who was deeply knowledgeable about the KGB but also careless, clumsy, and erratic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As a senior KGB official with colleagues and admirers throughout the Soviet government, Gordievsky could not simply be arrested; the KGB had to find solid evidence of his treachery or force him to admit it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As she passed through, she caught sight of a brass plaque that read: PRESIDIUM, KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “A basic rule was being broken,” KGB agent Alexander Feklisov later lamented. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Many more questioned his motives; after all, Kalugin was a retired KGB general and had once directed the spy service's counterintelligence operations inside Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “If this is disinformation,” Beria warned KGB chiefs, “I’ll put you in the cellar.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If Gordievsky was seen buying a train ticket, the KGB would apprehend him immediately. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Soviet memos and cables from the time show that the KGB never gave up hope of cultivating Oppenheimer—but never made any progress, either. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the KGB regularly checked the manholes for tampering. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A smaller team of eight agents moved in to catch the KGB mole. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally, with the help of several cranes provided by the city government, the statue known locally as "Iron Felix" soon lay in pieces on the ground, as the crowd chanted "Down with the KGB!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Walker, America soon learned, was overseeing a massive KGB spy ring in the US Navy that stretched back eighteen years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He could meet with his KGB handlers with ease, since, as far as MI6 was concerned, meeting with Soviet agents was part of Blake's job. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The trip was "cover," arranged months in advance in North Korea, for the first-ever contact between the spy and his new KGB handler away from the prying eyes of MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Semyonov was a secret agent for the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Agents tackled Stombaugh, pinning his arms behind his back in a painful "chicken wing" position often used by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “He decided to walk me to the subway,” Franklin reported to his KGB contact. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some KGB personnel even tracked when the lights were left on at night at American military bases in Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He’d taken out KGB agents and lowlife informants and still managed to sleep at night. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Kondrachev had come from Moscow, where as a KGB agent he kept watch on US embassy personnel, trailing them throughout the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Working together, the CIA and FBI conducted a painstaking search, cross-referencing everyone who had access to the names of the agents executed by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By the middle of 1985, the KGB had thrown the CIA on the defensive. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In his final, careless act as a double agent, Ames had left incriminating notes to and from the KGB in his trash can. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB's symbolic end arrived on August 22, 1991, not long after the failed coup. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But long before the Wall went up, the CIA was already scoping out new battlefields in the secret war with the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The telegram ordered Gordievsky to return to Moscow to discuss his new job with none other than the chairman of the KGB and the head of the First Chief Directorate. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If a KGB surveillance team were following Marti, Mike would see them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In London and Paris in the ensuing months, they could keep their eyes open for KGB trails and interview the Russian spy at length. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB probably knew that the telegraph company was making copies of every telegram and handing them over to the U.S. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "Many in the KGB hated you," Ivan said, "but there were many others like me who thought you were right." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was highly trained, intelligent, and one of their own: the first CIA agent to defect to the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They managed to piece together every time Ames had walked into the building to meet with his KGB contact. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the interrogation unfolded, however, he was no less astonished that Marti Peterson was a CIA spy than the KGB agents assembled around them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As it turned out, being the Agency's first female officer in Moscow had its advantages: The KGB never caught on to her real position in the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked on his work with MI6, to whom he passed thousands of KGB documents, as one small part of this important mission. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The espionage war with the KGB had taken center stage, and MI6 was determined to send its best agents against the communist foe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As TRIGON's value as a spy grew, so did Marti's special status as the only CIA agent who had escaped the notice of KGB watchers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But Enormoz could go nowhere until the KGB got a reliable source inside the American bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The KGB, which guarded the USSR's borders and kept watch over foreigners and Soviet citizens alike, was on high alert. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Over time, through such innocuous routines, Seacrest accomplished the first part of his mission: lulling KGB surveillance teams into dropping their guard. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “It was difficult because we always felt we were under FBI surveillance,” said KGB agent Alexander Feklisov. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was much too dangerous: The KGB kept all foreigners in the Soviet Union under close surveillance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He knew nothing about Blake's real identity, but neither was he a genuine informer; the KGB worked carefully with him to feed Blake documents and other bogus intelligence, which Blake then gave to MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Leonid Brezhnev, who succeeded Khrushchev as Soviet leader in 1964, had given the KGB nearly unlimited power over Soviet society. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB interrogated Powers for sixty-one days straight. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If the mole was working with the KGB, his identity was locked deep inside Lubyanka. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It became clear to Gordievsky that someone had turned him in, but that the KGB did not yet have the concrete evidence it needed to bring him to trial. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z KGB observers bugged CIA agents' phones and cataloged their daily routines. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As KGB officers surrounded Tolkachev, one of them forced a thick rope between his teeth, to prevent him from biting down on a suicide pill. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z From her training, Marti knew that this might be an old KGB trick—keeping foreigners in Moscow off balance, sleep deprived, and aware of being watched. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1962, CIA officials learned that the Soviets might be willing to exchange Powers for a senior KGB agent, Colonel Rudolf Abel, who was then languishing in a US federal prison in Georgia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And that work fell to the masters of the intelligence game, the spies of the CIA and KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Blake soon established a familiar routine, bringing reels of film to his KGB contact in the Soviet sector of the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB watched and followed all US citizens working for the American embassy in Moscow, because, as the Soviets knew, any one of them could be an undercover agent for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By October, KGB officers in Moscow were able to produce a complete report on plutonium bomb design, containing detailed descriptions of each component of the weapon and specific materials needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The KGB's Fifth Directorate policed anyone who dared criticize the system. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If American agents were ever on Hall’s trail, Cohen said, the KGB had told her to help arrange his transport to the Soviet Union, where he’d be given a new life. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The KGB pressed Powers about every detail of his mission, from the technical capabilities of the U-2 to the altitude of his flight and the identities of his fellow pilots. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was stunning news, after three months of hand-wringing and damage control at the highest levels of the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For the Sochi Games, Olympic Broadcasting Services said a flight plan must be filed with the Russian civil aviation authority and permission obtained from local Russian police and the FSB, the successor to the KGB. Sochi drone shooting Olympic TV, not terrorists 2014-02-10T19:35:14Z This is all part of Elizabeth’s mission to recruit Paige as a second-generation KGB spy -- much to Philip’s chagrin. 'The Americans' recap: Martha rattled by scare at work 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In a Swedish restaurant called KGB Bar, protesters who have rallied against both the World Trade Organization and the Bilderberg conference of power brokers gather for a break. Books of The Times: Charlie Huston’s ‘Skinner,’ a Thriller With a Troubled Hero 2013-07-14T21:41:57Z We have training going on with the Belarus underground – only a month ago, it was raided by the KGB. Natalia Kaliada: 'In Belarus it's very simple – everything's repressed' 2012-06-02T23:05:29Z It's also why the primary villains are the KGB rather than al-Qaida or China. Life of spy: the return of Archer 2013-07-12T13:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Features Nearly eight decades later, Beverly's book was banned in Soviet Russia, and all but a handful of smuggled copies were confiscated by the KGB. Beverly Whitney Kean obituary 2011-08-04T18:03:15Z The documentary explores a subculture that was inspired by the west yet distinctly homegrown – existing in a society shaped by communism and watched over by the KGB. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Can I prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Stewart is an agent of a foreign power, a KGB stooge planted on a low-rated, late-night comedy show in order to destroy America from within? Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It's only a two-and-a-half-hour flight from London and it's a place where people – our friends – have been imprisoned, stripped, electro-shocked and tortured in a KGB jail. Natalia Kaliada: 'In Belarus it's very simple – everything's repressed' 2012-06-02T23:05:29Z The Evil Empire, as Ronald Reagan had called it, had nuclear warheads trained on American cities and KGB spies infiltrating Washington. Explaining America to Americans: Why don’t you get the allure of your country for refugees — that no matter how horrible life is now, perhaps it’ll be better there? 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z As Stan keeps her safe from KGB assassins, he grows increasingly suspicious about her motives. 'The Americans' recap: Teen party girl could be a KGB asset 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “We could see Gorbachev and the KGB,” she recalls. A mini-tour of Washington sights you’ve probably never noticed 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z When Medvedev began to slander Leonid Brezhnev, the KGB was pushed to act. Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review 2013-05-10T08:00:02Z It’s the early 1980s and the KGB is determined to infiltrate a high-level CIA unit that is helping mujahedin rebels battle the Soviets in Afghanistan. 'The Americans' recap: KGB targets troubled CIA agent 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I went to the KGB — can you imagine? Elena Obraztsova, Jewel of the Bolshoi Opera, Is Dead at 75 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z "Americans" producers have long insisted that their show about KGB spies embedded as a U.S. family is both about marriage in general and about spying in particular, simultaneously. Spies coming in from the cold for TV shows 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Presented by Gavin Esler, a BBC journalist, “The Big Steal” traces the roots of Putin’s obsession with Ukraine, and how his ascent to power began when he was a KGB officer based in East Germany. 6 Podcasts About Political Scandals and Upheaval 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z CIA supervisors in Washington were so fearful of a KGB trap that they said no — repeatedly. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He found the whole business deeply embarrassing and later even claimed that the Beetle's numberplate began with KGB. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z One minute he's about to assassinate a once-trusted colleague in the coolest, politest way, the next he's dodging both the KGB and his own government while trying to sabotage nuclear-arms-reduction talks in Malta. The Sandbaggers: box set review 2013-06-13T14:00:01Z But when a KGB accomplice intentionally causes a traffic accident, Elizabeth manages to slip away once more. 'The Americans' recap: KGB targets troubled CIA agent 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z A hundred miles away in Dresden, KGB officer Vladimir Putin called his superiors. Rambo and the Terminator: the cold war warriors are back 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z “I’ve had Russians acting on behalf of other countries or other organizations because of the skill level they developed working for the Soviet Union, the KGB and its successor,” he said. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z A crucial agent crumbles under emotional distress and threatens to topple a valuable network of KGB informants; Philip and Elizabeth are tasked with infiltrating the FBI’s new communications encryption system. Wednesday TV Picks: The new ‘Boston’s Finest’ on TNT 2013-02-26T22:25:31Z Macintyre quotes President Vladimir Putin as saying that “there is no such thing as a former KGB man.” Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z We spy a KGB agent rummaging through files, and approaching a secret meeting place in the woods. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera 2010-05-30T21:16:00Z “Our first roof there was a clock tower just opposite the building of the KGB,” he said. Young Muscovite group risks life and limb to scale tall buildings 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But we knew from the very beginning that it will be prohibited, because if you talk to KGB, there were, like, very thick logbooks on us. Belarusian political dissidents on spreading their message of freedom: ‘We never know when our life will end’ 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Hundreds protest and are taken to KGB prisons. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z “To read at those places like KGB Bar or the Franklin Park series it’s like you need a National Book Award or something,” Mr. Howell added. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z His unlikely trajectory from backroom KGB apparatchik to unchallenged, quasi-despotic ruler of a troubled superpower was without question a reaction to something, or more accurately to a long series of somethings. Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Some KGB defectors insist that Pontecorvo was spying for them all along, though whether this is fact or just a way to sell exciting books has never been established. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z “The Americans” is a period drama about the marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington during the Reagan administration. ‘The Americans’ renewed for 2 more seasons before bowing out 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Here is a fact that Putin has hidden in plain sight: He was born into the KGB. ArtsBeat: Masha Gessen Talks About the Reign of Vladimir Putin 2012-03-07T18:52:16Z What we know so far is that Phillip and Elizabeth were brought together by the KGB and arrived in America as newlyweds. The Americans recap: Season one, episode one: Pilot 2013-05-27T23:20:26Z His teams dazzled the world, even humiliating the Canadians, but then he was replaced by Viktor Tikhonov, who owed his ascension to his KGB connections, and everything changed. 'Red Army' a winning look at Soviet-era's storied ice hockey team 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Vistitsky served in a Soviet battalion in East Germany in the mid-1980s, not far from where KGB officer Putin served around the same time. Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally 2012-02-05T13:38:07Z She’s nominally a British spook, but as she hunts for “Satchel”, a legendary KGB double agent who could be anyone, including her, all sides seem interchangeable. Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.” Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In addition, a newspaper accused Gurchenko of accepting cash from admirers to supplement her state-set salary, and questioned her patriotism when she refused to become a KGB informer. Lyudmila Gurchenko obituary 2011-04-03T17:19:23Z Many are more comfortable seeing Putin as little more than the resurrection of a lost KGB empire. Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review 2013-05-10T08:00:02Z The 60-year-old former KGB spy said he was very friendly with Depardieu, saying he thought the actor considered himself a Frenchman who loved the culture and history of his homeland. Putin offers French tax row actor Depardieu a Russian passport 2012-12-20T15:12:46Z In the Soviet Union, the KGB was clearly subordinated to the Communist party. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z As if being a KGB spy wasn't fraught enough, Elizabeth has had some other matters to tend to this season. 'The Americans': Keri Russell talks toothaches, bone breaks, motherhood 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Her parents don’t reveal that the KGB is targeting Paige as a second-generation spy. 'The Americans' recap: Suspicious Paige demands answers 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z "The Americans" is a period drama about the marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington during the Reagan administration. 'The Americans' renewed for 2 more seasons before bowing out 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z She was “assisted” by Andropov’s deputy and two KGB operatives brought in as “technical advisers”. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Super-hip hotel with funky, fun decor, in a former department store that served as headquarters for the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, after World War II. Part of the London-based chain. Details: Berlin When the party collapsed the KGB knew where the money was. Band of brothers 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z This meant that, albeit within the framework of the country's opaque totalitarian structures, there existed some oversight of the KGB and its activities. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Nixon is despised by his colleagues in Congress and the White House, and his closest and most enduring ties are to a pair of KGB operatives, Arkady and Tatiana. In Austin Grossman's supernatural novel, 'Crooked,' Richard Nixon meets H.P. Lovecraft 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Elizabeth definitely is becoming less the KGB true believer and more...what? human? ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In a city teeming with KGB agents, he met 21 times with CIA officers over the next six years without being detected. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He escaped that camp and returned to Vilnius to start a new rebellion against the Communists, had been caught, taken to the KGB prison and tortured. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The KGB's liberal attitude towards sex for both male and female officers made honey traps a standard strategy. Six reasons to watch The Americans 2013-06-01T23:05:42Z Chapman, 31, the daughter of an alleged KGB officer was arrested by New York police in 2010 and accused of being part of a network of sleeper agents. The Words and Wisdom of Former Russian Agent Anna Chapman 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z “I had to let you go,” Mom says of her painful decision to let Elizabeth join the KGB. 'The Americans' recap: Cold War getting hotter as season wraps 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The KGB wants to recruit her as a second-generation spy, but Philip is adamantly opposed. 'The Americans' recap: KGB targets troubled CIA agent 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Macintrye takes us into the puzzle from the first paragraph of Chapter 1: “Oleg Gordievsky was born into the KGB: shaped by it, loved by it, twisted, damaged and very nearly destroyed by it.” Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z How galling Putin will find this account of the ultimate KGB defector, who risked everything to break the tower of lies that was the Soviet Union. Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z According to Lampmann, harassment by the police and KGB was common. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Like so much Soviet cultural output of the 70s, Seventeen Moments began as propaganda, part of the reforms initiated by Yuri Andropov, the recently appointed head of the KGB, to improve the security agency’s image. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z These people are laboratory experiments created by the KGB. Director Noyce back from cold with "Salt" thriller 2010-07-21T07:04:00Z But Stan is shocked when he finds Nina bound, bloodied and surrounded by KGB agents. 'The Americans' recap: Soviets put squeeze on FBI agent 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Formerly, the museum was the KGB prison where our grandfather died in 1947, and it bears his name, along with many others’, on its gray marble walls. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z I think Matthew Rhys is this incredible embodiment of a suburban dad and a tough KGB officer at the same time. Q&A: The CIA Officer Behind the New Spy Drama ‘The Americans’ 2013-01-30T12:59:58Z At the height of the Cold War, a CIA operative and a KGB agent join forces to stop an international criminal organization. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Two decades later, here comes “The Kingfisher Secret,” an anonymous novel about how the KGB engineered Donald Trump’s ascent to the White House. Review | In the era of countless Trump exposés, do we really need a new ‘Primary Colors’? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But there’s also this huge discussion of -- I mean, you take the KGB out of it. 'The Americans': Keri Russell talks toothaches, bone breaks, motherhood 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Mr Putin also exploited the traditional links between the KGB and organised crime. Band of brothers 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z White Fever has little to say about the current clique in the Kremlin – though Vladimir Putin appears briefly as a young lieutenant in the Leningrad KGB, when he breaks up a hippy commune. White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z Besides the rise of KHJ in Los Angeles, KGB in San Diego went from last to first in its market in 90 days. Gene Chenault, Who Changed Rock Radio, Dies at 90 2010-03-04T07:14:00Z We spy a KGB agent rummaging through files, and approaching a secret meeting place in the Westchester woods. Art review: Exposed at Tate Modern 2010-05-27T15:56:00Z Some Russian media have reported that Tsiskaridze's patrons include Sergei Chemezov, a former KGB officer close to President Vladimir Putin who now serves as the CEO of Russian Technologies, a state-controlled industrial conglomerate. Battle for control over Bolshoi escalates 2013-03-20T14:18:31Z The committee's deliberations were to remain secret – for the time being, at any rate, like the files of the KGB, the Stasi or the Securitate. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z I don’t show no taxes — the Saudis got a part of me And my greatest friend was in the KGB. Style Invitational Week 1343: We plead no contest 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z A former KGB agent, he once called the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century. In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z He actually got arrested and brought to the Lubyanka, the infamous KGB prison, for singing an anti-Soviet song at a party. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z EST, focuses on two KGB spies posing as an ordinary American couple shortly after Ronald Reagan became president. Russell and Rhys play Russian spies in the 'burbs 2013-02-11T14:38:18Z The author interviews a man named Alexei, a former army officer who was possibly in the KGB, who is now charged with promoting ties to Western business. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z A former socialist journalist turned "conservative", who is actually in cahoots with the KGB? The Americans recap: season one, episode four 2013-06-22T21:40:01Z Members of the KGB together with the government's arts council swoop on theatres demanding to see the name of the directors, writers and cast and examine scripts for any reference to subversive themes. Free expression 2011-04-21T12:16:07Z The other strand is an exploration of Russia’s recent political history with particular reference to the role of the KGB and its shadowy legacy, and the overlap with Eurasianist thinking. The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Also the fact that despite a great deal of energy expended, each side ends up pretty much equal once more – the KGB has a bug, the FBI has a mole. The Americans recap: Season one, episode two 2013-06-03T23:47:51Z It’s about an American double agent in post-war Berlin working for the nascent CIA who is actually working for the KGB. All the Presidents’ Spies: Blackwater-founder Erik Prince is the latest Trump cut-out to parlay with Putin’s men 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z "The Americans" stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell are so convincing as KGB spies embedded as spouses in 1980s America that in disguise they can fool even the show's creators. 'The Americans': Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell talk spies, relationships 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The star of The Americans is not the KGB, but the house where these agents live, even as it looms on the screen like something out of a horror movie. Mission improbable: how The Americans changed the concept of the spy show 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Wallace’s hard turn, therefore, might have come as a bit of a surprise to the former KGB officer. Chris Wallace takes on Vladimir Putin, and is not outfoxed 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Like the KGB—the Committee for State Security—the church has adopted the role of guardian of the state. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The Canadian-born reporter later said that the Johnson Administration wanted him fired, and that there were allegations that he was a Soviet KGB agent. 5 Great Moments in the Life of '60 Minutes' Icon Morley Safer 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The critically acclaimed show follows Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, two KGB agents posing as an all-American couple while carrying out covert operations for the motherland in the deepest of deep cover operations. Six reasons to watch The Americans 2013-06-01T23:05:42Z Through six seasons Matthew Rhys has consistently turned in one of the best performances on TV as Philip Jennings, the KGB officer living in the States with his wife and fellow spy, Elizabeth. Emmys 2018: our predictions - who will win and who should win 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z And the vast majority of Russians, as well as the leaders of the Western world and Western media, chose to overlook everything else — like the fact that he was the KGB’s flesh and blood. ArtsBeat: Masha Gessen Talks About the Reign of Vladimir Putin 2012-03-07T18:52:16Z But this 80s-set series has a more confident grasp of its setting, and the plot – suburban American family are actually KGB spies – is irresistible. The best TV for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:50:01Z She makes no mention of the KGB, however. 'The Americans' recap: Suspicious Paige demands answers 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Emmet and Leanne, after all, lived a parallel life; they were also illegals, secretly living as KGB agents while raising two innocent American children. “The Americans” recap: Echoes of the past 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z While the spies in “The Americans” are willing and active if increasingly conflicted, the agents of “Allegiance” fled Russia in an effort to put their KGB past behind them. TV Picks: 'Foyle's War,' 'Allegiance,' 'The Fall' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z In an apparent reference to the Belarusian security agency that still goes under its Soviet-era name KGB, O’Leary said he believes “some KGB agents offloaded from the aircraft” in Minsk. West condemns plane’s diversion to arrest Belarus journalist 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Had “Leviathan” been made then, the mayor would have been a local party boss, the new church a Palace of Culture and the priest a KGB general. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z That insight was the inspiration for “The Americans,” which debuted in 2013, ran for six seasons and was hailed for its sophisticated exploration of two undercover KGB spies living near Washington during the Reagan administration. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z There are two profound differences between the KGB and the new FSB structure of power. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Its members had long been under the surveillance of the Belarussian KGB. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Political Theater Feels Truly Dangerous 2011-01-12T23:37:21Z Eddie believes he's a member of the KGB, and falls for Sally, who eventually decides that her future lies beyond this dysfunctional world. Postcards from Dumbworld ? review 2010-10-22T21:31:00Z The two play KGB officers posing as U.S. citizens in the 1980s. 'Felicity,' 'The Americans' actor Keri Russell gets Hollywood star 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Nikolai likes to describe the KGB as "the most honest organisation in the world", so blatant in its mission to repress that it hasn't changed its methods or even its name. Free expression 2011-04-21T12:16:07Z Despite these flaws, the book is consistently intriguing, if only to see what Khoury learned about spy tradecraft from his trainers in the KGB. September crime fiction: UK authors on the case 2012-09-05T22:53:04Z To spare their village from fighting, the other mujahedin leaders forged a secret pact with a Soviet general, the KGB spies falsely allege. 'The Americans' recap: KGB spies target Afghan commander 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Solzhenitsyn's met with Putin and praised him despite Putin's KGB background. Putin: Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago essential 2010-10-26T16:37:00Z “The ideology was discredited even in the army of the KGB sealing the fate of the Soviet Union.” New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z One year, the KGB had so much luck recruiting secretaries of important foreign government officials that they declared an entire Secretaries Defensive. Q&A: The CIA Officer Behind the New Spy Drama ‘The Americans’ 2013-01-30T12:59:58Z Diplomats, Communist Party workers, and even KGB members were importing music considered ideologically dangerous. Beatles for sale: The vinyl underground in the USSR 2012-10-05T07:06:49Z That situation is complicated of course by Gregory now being in some danger; Stan Beeman is starting to have some thoughts about whether a KGB cell might be active in Gregory's neighbourhood. The Americans recap: Season one, episode three 2013-06-15T21:40:00Z Its Capitol is, of course, the land of the 1 percent, a sort of amalgamation of Fashion Week, Versailles and the KGB/CIA. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z They were the regional representatives of the KGB. Khodorkovsky film vanishes again as director says: 'It's like a bad thriller' 2011-02-07T20:46:47Z Many priests maintained a close relationship with the KGB. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The situation of the KGB operatives embedded in the suburbs of 1980s Washington is a scary, complicated mess. After Mad Men and Breaking Bad, what’s next for The Great American Drama? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Over the years, Elena’s KGB handler moved her from one promising man to another until she finally caught the eye of an egotistical car manufacturer named Anthony Craig. Review | In the era of countless Trump exposés, do we really need a new ‘Primary Colors’? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It opens with the suicide of a man under the miserable surveillance of the KGB, and quickly segues into the explosion itself. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z KGB lunch: “Have your peephole call my peephole.” Style Invitational Week 1338: Picture this 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z While the KGB secret agent thread seems certain to provide thrills, the delicate negotiations between Phillip, Elizabeth and their unsuspecting kids Paige and Henry look set to provide the emotional muscle for this drama. The Americans recap: Season one, episode one: Pilot 2013-05-27T23:20:26Z What Elizabeth doesn’t reveal is that she recruited the former black militant as a KGB asset and that he was eventually gunned down by police. 'The Americans' recap: Fight over Paige's future intensifies 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Romanoff is a former KGB assassin and current agent of SHIELD, Marvel’s fictional counter-terrorism organisation. Black Widow: first trailer for the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie released online 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z SAT Pre-dance workshop, 7:30 p.m., dance to music by KGB, 8:30 p.m. Community calendar 2012-01-05T00:24:10Z Mr. Satter interviewed the group but was later told by trusted sources that the “dissidents” were actually undercover KGB agents. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In his junior year at what is now San Diego State University, Mr. Linkletter was hired as an announcer at San Diego radio station KGB. Obituary: Talk-show pioneer Art Linkletter 2010-05-27T04:12:00Z Unresolved agency business regularly returns to haunt him, courtesy of "Control", his former boss, as well as the KGB. The Equalizer: box set review 2013-06-20T14:40:00Z Equally well balanced, I thought, was the split of action between the FBI and KGB. The Americans recap: Season one, episode three 2013-06-15T21:40:00Z “I had absolute freedom inside, but if the ‘KGB’ grabbed me, they could send me to jail. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z But Tankilevich was also a KGB agent, spying on the gatherings. Another Yalta conference 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z But the visit didn’t have the intended effect of preparing Paige for KGB recruitment. 'The Americans' recap: Cold War getting hotter as season wraps 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Philip and Elizabeth complete their next mission; Philip’s fears about Elizabeth’s readiness for action deepen; Stan tracks the KGB walk-in which leads to much praise at work; Paige snoops into her mother’s family background. March 12 TV Picks: ‘Ireland’s Wild River’ on PBS’ ‘Nature’ 2014-03-11T20:16:27Z The new film shows Farewell, who is disenchanted with his homeland, passing defense technology secrets and eventually a coveted list of KGB agents working secretly around the world to a French businessman working in Moscow. Spies uncloaked in new film and no, it's not "Salt" 2010-07-15T14:01:00Z It’s disturbing, to us and to him, not just because Kimberly is underage and vulnerable, but specifically because she so recalls daughter Paige, whom the KGB also wants to develop as an operative. Fake It When You Make It: The Sad Sex of The Americans 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “Our first roof there was a clock tower just opposite the building of the KGB,” he said. Young Muscovite group risks life and limb to scale tall buildings 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The film re-creates this grim clampdown and uses surveillance photos found in KGB archives in Lithuania. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Back in the 60s nearly all the Russian women he encountered were KGB honeytraps – once the security forces had worked out he wasn't gay. Christopher Meyer: 'I wasn't nice to everyone' 2012-07-01T18:59:01Z We began previews for the New York premiere a week ago at the Atlantic Theater Company, and I am back in the world of Babel, the KGB and political conspiracy. The Hurricane Hit, but Our Show Went On 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In those few short scenes in the diner, he’s not just a KGB agent capturing and torturing a South African terrorist. The Americans: the best and worst disguises from the cold war thriller 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z And her husband, who started out as a KGB officer, is going soft on America. Q&A: The CIA Officer Behind the New Spy Drama ‘The Americans’ 2013-01-30T12:59:58Z Deploying methods that evoke the Nazis or the KGB, the Magisterium demands obsequious ideological submission from an increasingly fearful population. With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Putin critics say the story mirrors life in Russia in the 15 years since the former KGB spy first rose to power, with corrupt state officials enriching themselves and enjoying impunity. Oscar-nominated 'Leviathan' ruffles feathers in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z And he would look like nothing but a dupe on “The Americans,” the FX channel’s tale of KGB moles ferreting out Pentagon secrets while living outwardly middle-class lives in the Northern Virginia suburbs. In Washington, the drama never ends Ramirez, of course, was no spy, but then why would the FBI presume that a KGB agent would have a secret wife Moscow Centre knew nothing about? The Americans recap: Season one, episode three 2013-06-15T21:40:00Z KGB Bar has a regular reading series and is always worth a drop-in. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z Or his play A Question Of Attribution, about an imaginary encounter between the monarch and Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen’s pictures and a KGB spy. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Willetts remembers playing a frightening game of KGB with the son of one visitor. Sam Willetts: A season in hell 2010-10-04T20:45:00Z I’d heard how he was the lawyer who had led the defense for 11 rebels before the KGB tribunal, was found guilty and had been executed. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Her gaze tracks you more pitilessly than that of a KGB agent bent on sending you to the gulag. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z In this fictional world at least, we are indebted to them for thwarting plans within the KGB to frame Gorbachev and derail a U.S.-Soviet summit. Review | In a somber, satisfying ‘Americans’ finale, Philip and Elizabeth make a painful choice 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z They tell Larrick they know he’s been working for the KGB for the past three years and ask why he killed his handlers. “The Americans” recap: A daunting mission faces KGB spies 2014-04-03T16:03:00Z “He opened the KGB archives to him – including the classified files on Operation Sunrise.” Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z If a colleague saw you with "ideologically alien" music and informed the KGB, you could be barred from travelling abroad. Beatles for sale: The vinyl underground in the USSR 2012-10-05T07:06:49Z They believed it was naval Captain Larrick, a closeted homosexual who Emmet and Leanne had blackmailed into providing information to the KGB. “The Americans” recap: Echoes of the past 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In the documentary, Mr. Satter explains that one of his then-Soviet sources warned him: “The Soviet Union is a land of miracles, and from time to time the KGB likes to create reality.” New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Two out of eight presidential candidates are in KGB jails; another is under house arrest, although at one point seven out of the eight had been detained. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z SAT Dance workshop, 7:30 p.m.; dance to live music by Almost KGB, 8:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Even as the FBI starts to move in, the KGB also gain ground. The Americans recap: Season one, episode three 2013-06-15T21:40:00Z Lukashenko rules Belarus with the help of the KGB or secret police, a remnant of Soviet era repression that is still alive and well. Free expression 2011-04-21T12:16:07Z Patrushev, 72, is a former KGB officer who has known Putin since the 1970s when they worked together in the Soviet security service. Putin ally: West increasing risk of weapons of mass destruction being used 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z They were born in Leningrad 10 months apart, and Patrushev became head of the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency, in 1999 when Putin became prime minister. Putin is expected to seek reelection in Russia, but who would run if he doesn’t? 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Polaroids of the couple wearing jackets that appear to be authentic KGB uniforms were introduced early on by prosecutors, who suggested the case was about more than just identity theft. A trial begins for a Hawaii couple accused of stealing identities of dead babies 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Russia has said Gershkovich was caught "red-handed" while the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said he was trying to obtain military secrets. Detained WSJ reporter's sister urges Biden to remain focused on his release 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr Rabbimov believes that the Uzbek law-enforcement system had started sliding back into its Soviet past, with the security services now using the same methods as the Soviet KGB. Shavkat Mirziyoyev: Why is reformist Uzbek leader arresting bloggers? 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z For a long time, the family held on to the hope that Yury had been thrown in a KGB dungeon and was still alive. Yury Garavsky: Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus politicians 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z For a long time, Elena Zakharenka hoped that her father had been imprisoned by the Belarusian KGB security service and might return. Former Belarus 'hit squad' member to stand trial in Switzerland 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z The FSB, the successor to the KGB, also said it served summonses to question two U.S. diplomats who allegedly instructed Shonov to collect the information. Russia expels 2 US diplomats, accusing them of ‘illegal activity’ 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The KGB, where Putin once worked as a spy, was a successor to those organisations. 'Iron Felix' rises again over Russia's spy service in Moscow 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z The FSB, the successor agency of the Soviet Union’s KGB, said Mr. Shonov was working on behalf of at least two U.S. diplomats in the Embassy’s political department. Former Russian employee at U.S. Consulate charged with spying for Washington 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The FSB, the top KGB successor, said it has served summonses to question two U.S. diplomats who allegedly instructed Shonov to collect the information. A Russian who worked at a US consulate is accused of collecting information for US diplomats 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Ever the suspicious KGB mind, he had also served as the head of its successor, the FSB. How Putin's long friendship with Wagner boss Prigozhin turned ugly 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z While Mr. Prigozhin was allowed to relocate to Belarus without charges being filed against him, observers expected Mr. Putin — a former KGB officer — would eventually exact revenge. Wagner Group members vow revenge for death of mercenary army founder Prigozhin 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Today's Federal Security Service, the KGB's main successor, traces its history back to Dzerzhinsky. 'Iron Felix' rises again over Russia's spy service in Moscow 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Gershkovich has so far failed in two appeals, in April and June, against his pre-trial detention in Moscow's Lefortovo prison, where suspects accused by the KGB security service were held in Soviet times. Moscow court extends pre-trial detention of U.S. reporter by 3 months -Ifax 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z He says that even before the fall of the Communist regime, former KGB operatives had already transformed themselves into oligarchs who divided up the Russian economy like a giant cake. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z All are operatives of the Federal Security Services, known as the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB. US sanctions Russian operatives accused in the poisoning of Putin critic Alexei Navalny 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Addressed to a French literary journal, the letter was intercepted by the KGB, and the friend lost his job. Sixty-six years after returning to Russia, mathematician is an exile once more 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The restrictions will put British diplomats under the toughest constraints they have experienced in Moscow since Soviet times, when travel by foreigners was severely limited and closely controlled by the KGB security service. Russia imposes Soviet-style restrictions on British diplomats in Moscow 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z In the mid-1950s, the KGB illegally embedded a Russian national in an atomic testing facility near Lincoln County’s top-secret Area 13. The Western thriller book canon expands to Nevada — with a touch of 'The Americans' 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z On 22 June a Moscow court rejected an appeal to free Mr Gershkovich, 31, who is being held at Lefortovo, where the Soviet KGB formerly held dissidents. Evan Gershkovich: US confirms Russia contact over prisoner swap for reporter 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin’s KGB years in East Germany offer a window into his crackdown on protests, war on Ukraine and yearning for empire. Sleepless in Kyiv: In wartime capital, the stress of long fight weighs on everyone. Somehow, people cope 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z A documentary released this week by Britain’s Channel 4 lays out how Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB spy who became a rich banker, and his son, Evgeny, embedded themselves in the country’s establishment. Why Corporate America Is Worried About Affirmative Action 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z He complained the bank was dominated by “Communist Party hacks” who were “like an in-house KGB or Gestapo or Stasi” - the secret police of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and communist-era East Germany. Canada suspends work with Chinese-founded development bank while it investigates complaints 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The young Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was a KGB officer in the then-East German city of Dresden, and it was one of history’s pivotal moments. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr Lukashenko - who has been in power since 1994 - claimed victory in disputed elections in 2020, triggering mass protests and a brutal crackdown by the Belarusian KGB security service and riot police. Russian nuclear weapons 'in hands of Belarus dictator', warns opposition leader 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z He complained that the bank was dominated by “Communist Party hacks” who were “like an in-house KGB or Gestapo or Stasi” -— the secret police of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Communist-era East Germany, respectively. Canadian quits Chinese-founded development bank, complains ‘Communist Party hacks’ dominate it 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Soon afterwards, Maslov was sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow, a former KGB interrogation site, before being transferred to St. Petersburg to stand trial. State treason trial of Russian physicist begins in St. Petersburg 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that several thousand Apple phones had been infected, including those of domestic Russian subscribers. Russia's FSB says U.S. NSA penetrated thousands of Apple phones in spy plot 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The villa at #4 Angelika Street, in a suburban district overlooking the River Elbe, housed the KGB’s Dresden headquarters. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Soon afterwards he was sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow, a former KGB interrogation site. First Russian hypersonic missile scientist to go on trial for treason next week 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Since Putin rose to power in 1999, the former KGB lieutenant colonel has crafted a rigid, if often chaotic, system in which public criticism is not tolerated. Jester or rebel? Mercenary Prigozhin lays bare the strains of Putin's war 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z For instance, a December law mandates that taxi companies share their databases with the successor agency of the Soviet KGB, giving it access to travelers’ dates, routes of trips and payment. The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Similarly, the KGB gave assistance to Vietnamese communists attempting to defeat the government of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Draper called the KGB building a constant amid the Cold War intrigue that swirled around it and across the Soviet bloc. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Thousand of people were later arrested and brutally beaten by riot police and KGB security service agents during mass anti-government protests that rocked the country. Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko misses event, fuelling health rumours 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Astakhov argued that murdering an ambassador in retaliation “for unfriendly actions … is within the framework of international law,” adding: “I was taught this well at the KGB school at the counter-intelligence faculty.” Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Astakhov argued that murdering an ambassador in retaliation “for unfriendly actions … is within the framework of international law,” adding: “I was taught this well at the KGB school at the counterintelligence faculty.” Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Non-Russians imagined they were sitting on the very chairs once occupied by KGB agents. Perspective | Is borscht okay to eat? The politics of D.C.’s gastro diplomacy. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Still a teenager, he had begun to move in clandestine anti-government circles and was well aware of the long arm of the Stasi and the KGB. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The 31-year-old denies the allegations and is detained at a former KGB prison. Evan Gershkovich: Russia denies jailed reporter consular visit 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Within hours, it became clear that Daniloff had been set up by the KGB. Opinion | What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z That laughable concept has been undermined by the $787.5 million settlement, as he used KGB tradecraft when citing specificity to add credibility to spurious claims. Opinion | Undermining democracy for personal gain is reprehensible 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z He was moved to the Lefortovo prison, which in Soviet times was run by the KGB but is now operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service. U.S. reporter Gershkovich to appeal against arrest and detention in Russian jail 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Draper’s installation, titled “The House Near a Deep Forest,” painstakingly rendered the KGB villa in miniature, surrounded by bare trees and seemingly snowy ground. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z This angered the KGB agents who were on the trip, and Nureyev was told he was to be sent home. Pierre Lacotte: French dancer who helped Rudolf Nureyev defect dies 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The KGB operation that began in 1982 moved into a new phase in December 1984, when Daniloff warily met with a man who said he was a Russian Orthodox priest named Roman Potemkin. Opinion | What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The FSB, Russia’s top security agency and a successor to the KGB, said Gershkovich was trying to obtain classified information about a Russian arms factory. Blinken says WSJ reporter ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Russia’s Federal Security Service, of FSB, the top successor to the Soviet-era KGB, accused Gershkovich of trying to obtain classified information about a Russian arms factory. Lawyers meet with jailed American reporter in Moscow prison 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Russia’s Federal Security Service, the top successor to the Soviet-era KGB that is known by the acronym FSB, accused Gershkovich of trying to obtain classified information about a Russian arms factory. Jailed US reporter’s defense appeals his arrest 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Nureyev pleaded with Lacotte not to leave his side at the airport, but Nureyev was surrounded by KGB agents. Pierre Lacotte: French dancer who helped Rudolf Nureyev defect dies 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Shultz advised President Ronald Reagan that with the “secret” maps and the Potemkin ruse, the KGB had produced “evidence” that would make an espionage charge look credible. Opinion | What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z She said she had lost track of Putin — who went on to serve as a KGB operative in East Germany — until seeing him beside Russian President Boris Yeltsin on television in the late 1990s. In old, feel-good story, Putin bought teacher an apartment. He didn’t. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The FSB, Russia’s top security agency and successor to the KGB, said Gershkovich was collecting information on an enterprise of the military-industrial complex. Blinken: Russia must immediately free 2 detained Americans 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The men were agents of the KGB, the country’s powerful security agency, and had accused Daniloff of spying. Moscow hadn’t accused a U.S. reporter of spying since the Cold War — until this week 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z After Stalin’s death in 1953, the prison continued to serve as main detention facility for the KGB, which used it for espionage suspects and political dissidents. Moscow prison for US reporter was used in Stalin’s purges 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s probably a pipe dream, but I hope he is spared the kind of elaborate facade of manufactured charges that Nicholas Daniloff faced when he was arrested by the KGB 36 years ago. Opinion | What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Known by the acronym FSB, the service is the top domestic security agency and main successor to the Soviet-era KGB. Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on spying charge 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The FSB, the country’s top security agency and successor to the KGB, said Gershkovich was collecting information on an enterprise of the military-industrial complex. American detained in Russia a ‘brave, committed’ journalist 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z “They, of all people, should know I was not a spy,” Daniloff wrote later of the KGB in “Two Lives, One Russia,” a book that included an account of his arrest. Moscow hadn’t accused a U.S. reporter of spying since the Cold War — until this week 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It was on one such trip, to the industrial town of Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains, that he was arrested this week by Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, successor to the Soviet KGB. Who is Evan Gershkovich, the American reporter arrested in Russia? 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z News and World Report Moscow bureau chief were a case study in Russian subterfuge — and, sadly, CIA incompetence that played into the hands of the KGB and infuriated Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Opinion | What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB. Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on spying charge 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z News and World Report was arrested by the KGB. American detained in Russia a ‘brave, committed’ journalist 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z He would spend 13 days in a KGB prison and eventually return to the United States. Moscow hadn’t accused a U.S. reporter of spying since the Cold War — until this week 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Russia's domestic spy agency, the FSB, the modern-day successors to the Soviet KGB, was able to do this by forming temporary operational groups that focused on target cities such as Melitopol. Russian spies more effective than army, say experts 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The fact that he had secured a long-term visa to work at a Soviet publishing house suggested that he had KGB connections. Opinion | What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z After Maria’s antiwar drawing was reported to authorities, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, Russia’s main successor to the KGB, questioned the girl, interrogated her father and told him that he was raising her “incorrectly.” Russia sentences dad to jail after daughter’s antiwar art, but he flees 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z This was anathema to Mr. Putin, the former KGB officer who, during the blossoming of democratic hope in Gorbachev’s years, was serving the security and intelligence agency in Dresden, Germany. Opinion | The despots of Russia and Belarus cannot jail freedom 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The country’s KGB state security agency also reported detaining a Ukrainian national whom the authorities accuse of attacking the plane, and 20 Belarusian alleged accomplices. Belarus rights group says scores detained in new clampdown 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z After all, Putin not only served in the Soviet KGB but, according to new archival research, personally participated in searches and interrogations of dissidents in 1970s Leningrad. Opinion | Putin is planning a Soviet-style punishment for his critics 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z She charged that the law and the justice system in Belarus no longer work, and the state “has turned into one big KGB.” Belarus sentences exiled opposition leader to 15 years 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z And given DoppelPaymer’s suspected connection through Evil Corp to the FSB — the successor to Russia’s KGB spy agency — “the bust could provide law enforcement with some exceptionally valuable intel,” he said. European police, FBI bust international cybercrime gang 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z But so far, intelligence analysts say they have seen nothing that suggests the onetime KGB agent is not up to the rigors of the job. Survival at all costs: Putin undercuts political opponents, crafts system that crumbles without him 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z He was on his way, it later emerged, to meet a KGB agent in the historic European “spy capital” of Vienna. Arne Treholt, Norwegian official and Russian spy, dies at 80 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z In February 1974, soon after the publication in the West of his seminal work “Gulag Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn was arrested in his Moscow apartment, taken to the KGB’s Lefortovo prison and charged with treason. Opinion | Putin is planning a Soviet-style punishment for his critics 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z He remembers stories of elders sent to Siberian prison camps for their faith and a persistent fear that a KGB “snitch” was somewhere in their midst. After a man burst in with a gun, a San Francisco synagogue confronts hate 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s natural, given Putin’s old job as a KGB agent and his determination to expand Russia’s imperial reach to something closer to the hegemony once enjoyed by the old Soviet Union. Opinion | Putin pitches the American right with an ungodly invocation of God 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z And Putin, the career KGB officer, knows full well that preventing a vigorous Russian civil society from emerging is the key to his continued misrule in Russia. Opinion: How long will Russians tolerate Putin's costly war? 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Within minutes, the KGB tore down the banners and arrested the protesters. Opinion | They clicked once. Then came the dark prisons. If so, the fallout may add to the list of consequences that Russian President Vladimir Putin — a former KGB officer in East Germany — failed to anticipate when he ordered the invasion of Ukraine. In wake of Ukraine war, U.S. and allies are hunting down Russian spies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z But if Russia's business leaders - who include many of Putin's erstwhile KGB colleagues - object to the course of events, they are doing so in private. Putin, secure in power, sets stage for long and draining war 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z His then wife said he had kept her in the dark when he set off to meet the KGB in Vienna, telling her he was on his way to Paris. OBITUARY Treholt, Norwegian Cold War spy who served Soviet Union and Iraq, dies at 80 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin comes from the KGB — the intelligence arm of the former Soviet government — rather than the military. Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries in the thick of the fight 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The controversy relates to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the role of Nosenko, a KGB agent who defected shortly after the murder in Dallas. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The dichotomy was summarized by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who served in its notorious KGB security agency. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z “The FBI is the largest criminal gang in the country,” the right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza recently wrote on Twitter, adding, “It’s America’s version of the KGB or the Chinese state police.” Republicans Step Up Attacks on F.B.I. as It Investigates Trump 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “He covered the intelligence community like no one else at the time. Some of it may have been from the street cred he got from being interrogated by the KGB at Lefortovo.” Robert Toth, L.A. Times reporter targeted by KGB, dies at 93 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Putin graduated with a degree in law from Leningrad State University in 1975 and joined the KGB that year after being earlier targeted for recruitment. Soviet artists drew a freedom message. A KGB agent named Putin investigated. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Angleton said in the testimony that he blocked Nosenko’s information from being used by the Warren Commission investigating the assassination because of suspicions Nosenko was a plant who remained secretly loyal to the KGB. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z He is an almost legendary figure in American and Western popular culture as some type of super-spy and KGB killer who is always playing 3-D chess and outthinking his opponents. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Alexander Azarov, a former lieutenant colonel in the Belarusian KGB intelligence service, said his contacts in the military tell him the training has involved maneuvers that would be required in an invasion, including river crossings. Ukrainian fears grow of a new Russian invasion from Belarus 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Embassy that he had obtained “secret data” and must report to the KGB’s infamous Lefortovo Prison for interrogation. Robert Toth, L.A. Times reporter targeted by KGB, dies at 93 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “The KGB hated us of course,” he added. Soviet artists drew a freedom message. A KGB agent named Putin investigated. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Nosenko also was believed to have provided false information about KGB operations in France and double agents in the United States, Angleton testified. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z My new book opens with a scene where Putin has already been serving in the KGB for 10 years. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Long-time JFK academics and theorists have hoped the latest release would reveal more information about Oswald's activities in Mexico City, where he met with a Soviet KGB officer in October 1963. Thousands of unedited government JFK assassination files released 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But the KGB transcript of his interrogation was used against Scharansky at his subsequent trial on spurious charges of treason. Robert Toth, L.A. Times reporter targeted by KGB, dies at 93 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The KGB seized cameras, film negatives of banned books, typewriters and tape recorders. Soviet artists drew a freedom message. A KGB agent named Putin investigated. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z McCoy, who died in 2019, called Nosenko one of the CIA’s most important defectors, one who inflicted significant damage on the KGB despite showing signs, as did other defectors, of a personality disorder. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z For his whole life, Putin has wanted to serve in the KGB. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z He was immediately grabbed by four KGB agents and hustled off to Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison. Robert Toth, L.A. Times reporter falsely accused of spying by KGB in 1977, dies at 93 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z News & World Report, was arrested by the KGB after a Soviet acquaintance handed him a closed package containing maps marked “top secret.” Griner case latest in string of high-profile prisoner swaps 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z He said that the KGB was always the “bloodiest of all the security services” and that no one should be surprised that Putin built “a fascist regime and now it’s restricting our civil rights.” Soviet artists drew a freedom message. A KGB agent named Putin investigated. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “The evidence shows that he has damaged the Soviet intelligence effort more than all the other KGB defectors combined,” McCoy stated in a memorandum released in December. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The problem, of course, is that Putin is a product of the Soviet KGB, and you can't necessarily put much stock in what he says publicly or privately. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Formerly part of the KGB, and founded in 1974, it was used in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Middle East and against militants in various hostage crises. Ukraine conflict spurs some Russians to seek Kalashnikov training 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Working with agents in Moscow and West Berlin, Ryan races to uncover the truth while KGB and Stasi assassins close in. 10 noteworthy books for December 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Putin’s career as a KGB officer has long explained his approach as president. Soviet artists drew a freedom message. A KGB agent named Putin investigated. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z According to McCoy, Nosenko identified 73 past, present or potential American agents for the KGB and 97 other foreign spy suspects. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The first section consists of all the garbage that's poured into him by the Russian intelligence services that are the KGB's successors, as well as the career bureaucracy. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In the same ceremony, a young Vladimir Putin, then working in East Germany for the KGB, received a bronze medal of merit. Flow of Russian gas and cash entangled German state in dependent web 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z She and Mr Putin both had direct experience of life in communist East Germany - she grew up there and he served there as a Soviet KGB officer, doing secret intelligence work. Ukraine war: Merkel says she lacked power to influence Putin 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The promotion indicates that “the spies have come to power” in Xi’s China, much like the KGB in the Soviet Union, said Wu, the Stanford scholar. Taiwan, missiles and spying set to be China’s priorities under new Xi term 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z He also supplied 200 leads and identified over 400 KGB officers and agents. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z First operated by the KGB during the Cold War, and revived in recent years by President Vladimir Putin, Russia's intelligence agencies craft fake identities, or "legends", for spies before deploying them to foreign countries. Norway arrests man accused of being Russian spy 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z At Harvard, Khrushchev’s granddaughter derided Putin as a small-minded KGB lieutenant colonel who had learned “zero lessons” from the Cuban history. Opinion | The lessons of the Cuban missile crisis are lost on Putin 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In Sharansky’s case, even the Soviet KGB felt the need to allege that he had disclosed “military secrets” by publishing refuseniks’ places of employment to substantiate the accusation of “treason.” Opinion | Vladimir Kara-Murza from prison: In Putin’s Russia, dissent is now ‘treason’ 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z One of the association's members was a cybersecurity company called Protelion, which was a subsidiary of a Russian firm reportedly established by a former member of the KGB honoured by President Vladimir Putin. Germany fires cybersecurity chief 'over Russia ties' 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The KGB agent planned his flight to the West years before his December 1961 defection. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Schoenbohm was a founder of the association, which counts as a member a German company that is a subsidiary of a Russian cybersecurity firm founded by a former KGB employee, they wrote. Germany's cybersecurity chief faces dismissal, reports say 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The plot involves a murdered journalist, a former KGB goon, a Swedish money launderer, kidnapping, death by knitting needle, and Alan, an extremely personable dog. Review | 3 great audiobooks to listen to this month 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Putin, who spent his childhood under Stalin and his formative years in the KGB, is almost a throwback to the old authoritarianism, and has not seemed to master the new authoritarianism's greater subtlety and intimacy. Putin really could fall — but will that help the West as much as we think? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z For all his hopes, Putin's KGB career never really took off. Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The years allowed him to break down the deepest KGB secrets and to obtain information valuable to the U.S. intelligence and its allies. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z A rumour swirling around the tournament also suggests the Soviets' large entourage included KGB agents. The women who fought for their own World Cup 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The former KGB agent has demonstrated an appetite for risk and brinkmanship. What’s Putin thinking? Tough to know for nuclear analysts 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z The elevation to the presidency of a former KGB officer on the eve of the new millennium represented for many a welcome promise of order and authority restored. Review | Putin’s centuries-long march into Ukraine 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, he had applied himself to learning German, and this got him an appointment to the KGB's liaison offices in Dresden in 1985. Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Golitsyn had maneuvered his way within the KGB bureaucracy by refusing foreign assignments and remaining within the spy service headquarters, Angleton said. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z One team was supposedly accompanied by KGB agents. The women who fought for their own World Cup 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Stalin was arguably the first dictator to rule through the political police, and that became part of the merger between the KGB and now the way politics works in Putin’s Russia. Why did Putin go to war, and can Ukraine win? A leading Russia historian chimes in 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z She is then kidnapped by the “Viking” and is tasked with killing Viktor Illyich, a man once nicknamed “The Bullet” by his fellow KGB agents. Review | The Thursday Murder Club is back in action and as entertaining as ever 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z On 5 December, a mob surrounded the Dresden KGB building. Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The most valuable intelligence provided by Golitsyn were KGB code names and circumstantial evidence of widespread burrowing of KGB agents into key positions in the West. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The right-wing Turning Point USA pairs a photo of Vladimir Lenin with one of Bernie Sanders; on the left, accusations fly that Donald Trump is an asset of the KGB. Perspective | Why Gorbachev’s death feels like it’s part of an alternate history 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s a weird compound of this KGB tradition, which Putin deploys masterfully, and a sort of medieval patrimonialism. Why did Putin go to war, and can Ukraine win? A leading Russia historian chimes in 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Vladimir Putin, who once said “the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” was a little-known former KGB officer working in the mayor’s office of newly renamed St. Petersburg. From Gorbachev to Putin: How economics failed Russia 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Putin would later leave the KGB as the Soviet Union imploded, but soon secured a position as fixer for the reformist new mayor of what was now St Petersburg. Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Another indicator of Golitsyn’s value to the CIA was revealed in letters found in the residence of recruited KGB agent Army Sgt. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Vladimir Putin is ramping up the pressure by slowing and even stopping gas exports to Germany, a country he thinks he knows very well because of his years serving there in the KGB. Opinion | In tough times, don’t lose sight of Germany’s unlikely success story 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z As leader, Putin has crushed the media and civil society, returned to totalitarianism, installed former KGB and other security officials in key positions, destroyed nongovernmental organizations, invaded Ukraine, and isolated Russia from the West. Disdained by Putin, Gorbachev walked a tightrope to defend his legacy 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z A feeble coup attempt against Gorbachev by the KGB in August 1991 quickly failed, but it weakened his hold on power, and by the end of the year Boris Yeltsin had elbowed him brutally aside. John Simpson: Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z To Putin the street-smart bruiser, the KGB was the biggest gang in town, offering security and advancement even to someone with no Party connections. Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Angleton testified that Golitsyn called him after the Kennedy assassination and said all defectors to the Soviet Union were sent through the KGB’s 13th Department, which conducts assassinations, sabotage, and spying. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Under his rule, the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB, was responsible for a wave of terror. Statues topple as Europe purges communist monuments 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Gorbachev, the party, the KGB and the military were lambasted with open and often trenchant criticism. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z By 1999 Vladimir Putin came to power, determined to rebuild Russia's power, re-instate the power of the old KGB, and force Ukraine, in particular, back into Moscow's orbit. John Simpson: Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The "August coup" was mounted by a so-called Emergency Committee including the KGB chief, prime minister, defence minister and vice president. Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The Andrew book is based on documents provided by yet another KGB defector, Vasili Mitrokhin, who worked in the KGB archives and brought out documents that shed light on the defector controversy at CIA. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main successor to the KGB, said Dugina’s killing was “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.” Mourners pay tribute to nationalist killed by car bombing 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Ukraine’s SBU — like its Russian counterpart — is a direct descendant of the KGB. Russia’s spies misread Ukraine and misled Kremlin as war loomed The rabbi guessed that Mr. Nagler wouldn’t raise much attention from the KGB and other Soviet minders. Gerald Nagler, leading human rights activist since Cold War, dies at 92 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Kau said the couple appeared to wear the same KGB jacket in the photos and her client was only in a T-shirt. Wife of defense contractor claims stolen ID is her real name 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z One KGB document revealed that Golitsyn’s “treason” was very damaging to the KGB and was the result of careerism. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Vadim Bakatin, a liberal politician who briefly headed the Soviet KGB in the months leading up to the collapse of the USSR, has died at the age of 84, Russian state media said on Monday. U.S. accuses Russia of using Ukraine power plant as 'nuclear shield' 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Copies of Russian files gathered by the KGB on Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of U.S. Vadim Bakatin, last head of Soviet KGB, dies at 84 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Though less famous than the KGB and its successor the FSB, Russia’s military intelligence agency, commonly known as the GRU, has a reputation for taking bolder and riskier actions. Russia wants Viktor Bout back, badly. The question is: Why? 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z A search of the couple’s Hawaii home turned up photos that appear to be shot in the 1980s of the two wearing uniforms of the Russian KGB, the former spy agency, prosecutors said. Wife of defense contractor claims stolen ID is her real name 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z However, Mr. Andrew said KGB headquarters missed the value of Golitsyn’s confusing information. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z A search of the couple’s Hawaii home turned up faded Polaroids of the two wearing jackets that appear to be authentic Russian KGB uniforms, Myers said. Invisible ink, coded papers add mystery to ID theft case 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z He also said he was open in principle to the idea of opening up KGB archives to shed light on unsolved mysteries such as the 1963 assassination of U.S. Vadim Bakatin, last head of Soviet KGB, dies at 84 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Coast Guard and as a defense contractor and old photos show the couple wearing uniforms of the KGB, the former Russian spy agency, Assistant U.S. Hawaii couple charged with stealing IDs of dead Texas kids 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The Soviet KGB was the main Cold War rival of Western security services and President Vladimir Putin - along with some of his closest comrades - worked for the agency. Boris Johnson says meeting with ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev was social event 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The memo described Kostikov as part of the KGB 13th Department in charge of “sabotage and assassination.” Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The family later learned from KGB records that Chinese troops handed him over to the Soviets, who interrogated him before he was stoned to death in North Korea. Wall of Remembrance salutes fallen Korean War vets on National Mall 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Much is made, rightly, of Bagley’s meetings with former KGB officers after the Berlin Wall came down in ’89, long evenings with old war stories and reminiscences, some of them useful and confirming. Review | A (dubious) suicide, a (possible) mole and an enduring CIA mystery 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The disinformation was part of the KGB’s “Operation Infektion,” and it would be spread in 30 languages in the newspapers of 80 countries. Review | Fear, biases and brinkmanship: A psychological history of the Cold War 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In an article, he acknowledged his father "was a foreign intelligence agent of the KGB", but insisted he was not "some agent of Russia" and condemned its invasion of Ukraine. Boris Johnson says meeting with ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev was social event 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The document follows a declassified report released several years ago linking Oswald to a KGB assassination official in Mexico. Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Notably, he downplays the influence of the KGB on his evolution as a person and as a leader. Review | A biography that gives Vladimir Putin the benefit of the doubt 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The air traffic controller who was to handle the flight, seeing the KGB man present, decided to record whatever was said on his smartphone. Opinion | In the skies over Belarus, a false bomb report signaled danger on the ground 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z The KGB launched Operation RYaN, an acronym for the Russian words for “nuclear missile attack.” Review | Fear, biases and brinkmanship: A psychological history of the Cold War 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “You can find places in Lithuania that were used by the KGB and still feel like it. But then you go about town and it’s European and quaint. The potential is large.” There's a Hollywood filming boom in far-flung Europe. Locals aren't so sure it's a good thing 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The sprawling organisation emerged out of the Soviet-era KGB and has been the subject of a reform push in recent years. Sidelining of spy chief spotlights Ukraine's battle to purge Russian agents 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z “Putin was already Putin before he joined the KGB,” Short writes. Review | A biography that gives Vladimir Putin the benefit of the doubt 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Shortly thereafter, the KGB man sat down, to the controller’s right. Opinion | In the skies over Belarus, a false bomb report signaled danger on the ground 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Patrushev’s ascendance underlines the influence of hard-line former KGB men, who have been battling liberal-leaning technocrats for Putin’s ear for more than two decades. The man who has Putin’s ear — and may want his job 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Mr Putin and many of his closest aides were KGB officers, working for the Soviet Union's security services during the Cold War, like Mr Lebedev. PM 'thinks' he reported oligarch meeting, MPs told 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The Soviet KGB was the main Cold War rival of Western security services, and President Vladimir Putin was a KGB officer too. Boris Johnson met Russian oligarch Lebedev without aides 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The combination of martial arts mastery and his experience as a KGB case officer in East Germany enabled him to become a skilled manipulator of people. Review | A biography that gives Vladimir Putin the benefit of the doubt 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In the tower, there was a mysterious man — later identified as coming from the Belarus KGB. Opinion | In the skies over Belarus, a false bomb report signaled danger on the ground 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Ever since Putin was anointed head of the FSB, the KGB successor agency, in 1998 and began his rapid ascent to the Russian presidency, Patrushev has served by his side. The man who has Putin’s ear — and may want his job 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z |
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