Many people who have studied what’s been released so far say the public shouldn’t anticipate any earth-shattering revelations ...
Vladimir Putin has gone from being a lieutenant colonel in the KGB to the president of Russia, but besides the fact that he ...
Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office Sunday in an election ...
Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh ...
For decades conspiracy theorists have pointed to the US government’s refusal to release the John F Kennedy files as evidence ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the National ...
Notorious double agent Anthony Blunt feared that his KGB handler would turn violent when he refused to join his fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean and flee to Russia, according to newly ...
Investigation(3/5). The archives of KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin challenge the notion that French intelligence services were never infiltrated during the Cold War: Throughout the 1950s ...
From a 'schoolyard thug', to joining the KGB and meeting his wife Lyudmila. Watch the full documentary on BBC Select. From the Mouse Bunker to the Embassy of Czechoslovakia, the Cold War buildings ...
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that a Russian citizen had established contact with an officer from Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency through the Telegram ...