Oleg Gordievsky, a key double agent in the Cold War, dies at 86
For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky ...
Oleg Gordievsky, famed Cold War spy and KGB defector, dead at 86
Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died in England at ...
JFK files provide inside look at CIA’s shadowy Cold War history
In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
The Soviet Union boasted an unbroken streak of world ... was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on Jan. 30, 1937. During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he ...
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China Is Secretly Worried Trump Will Win on Trade
Soon after Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, Xi Jinping asked his aides to urgently analyze the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. His concern ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
With the Cold War at its height and the Soviet Union having dominated the game for years, Spassky faced a must-win situation in his match-up with the eccentric 29-year-old, who openly criticised ...