You Searched For "KGB" and got 20 results
Sort By:
1 min read
Putin just gave Russia's post-KGB spy network a new job
Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked Russia's spy network with helping businesses circumvent…
Huileng Tan
1 min read
An ex-KGB agent says every American that Putin can imprison is 'an asset that you can trade' as Moscow detains a US ballerina
"That happened during Stalin's time, all the way through today," said Jack Barsky, a former sleeper…
Matthew Loh
2 mins read
Vladimir Putin was never the Soviet super spy he'd like us to believe. He was merely a KGB 'errand boy,' report says
An investigation by German news outlet Der Spiegel revealed Vladimir Putin carried out largely "ban…
Nathan Rennolds
3 mins read
Ex-KGB sleeper agent on Russia's nuclear threats: 'Putin is not a suicide bomber'
"He's still working on his legacy, and he pretty much knows that if he explodes a nuke — he's toast…
John Haltiwanger
3 mins read
US journalist detained in Russia reportedly reading famous anti-Soviet novel by a Ukrainian Jew as he sits in notorious ex-KGB prison
Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich's reported choice of book could be viewed as a subt…
John Haltiwanger
2 mins read
Lee Harvey Oswald met KGB officer in Mexico City shortly before JFK assassination, new documents reveal
Nearly 1,500 pages of documents related to the JFK assassination were made public on Wednesday.
Ashley Collman
8 mins read
Putin's KGB past is key to grasping what he might do next in his failing Ukraine war, ex-spies say
The KGB morphed Putin into a master manipulator and played a key role in his rise to power and his …
John Haltiwanger
2 mins read
Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB agent and father of Evgeny Lebedev, sanctioned by the Canadian government
Labour has called on the Government to join Canada in sanctioning Alexander Lebedev, whose son Evge…
Henry Dyer
2 mins read
The EU moves to isolate Belarus after the government diverted a flight carrying a Belarusian dissident
Roman Protasevich's arrest drew international outrage as EU leaders condemned the forced grounding …
Lauren Frias
2 mins read
Belarusian authorities post a video of a journalist who was arrested after the government diverted his flight
Roman Protasevich, a vocal critic of Alexander Lukashenko, said he was treated "lawfully" by author…
Lauren Frias
2 mins read
Russia's modern-day KGB started massively expanding its Ukraine unit years before the invasion, hinting at a Putin plot long in the making: report
Top experts on Russia have repeatedly underscored that Putin has long been preoccupied with Ukraine…
John Haltiwanger
2 mins read
Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years, former KGB spy says
Yuri Shvets told The Guardian that the KGB had identified Trump as a potential asset as far back as…
Thomas Colson
2 mins read
US slaps fresh sanctions on 8 Russian oligarchs, including Kremlin's press secretary and a former Putin KGB coworker
Full blocking sanctions will be imposed on eight Russian oligarchs and their family members to cut …
Huileng Tan
1 min read
GOP Rep. Mo Brooks compared the January 6 committee to the Gestapo and called it 'KGB-like'
"I really hate the idea that they're trying to turn this into a police state," Brooks said, adding …
Kelsey Vlamis
10 mins read
Former KGB spy rates 9 Russian spy scenes in movies
Jack Barsky is a former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the US from 1978 to 1988. He breaks d…
David Ibekwe,Ju Shardlow
2 mins read
A superyacht that belongs to a Russian oligarch and former KGB agent has been stuck in Norway for over a month because suppliers are refusing to fuel it
A yacht owned by Russian oligarch and longtime Putin associate Vladimir Strzhalkovsky is stranded i…
Gabrielle Bienasz,Marielle Descalsota
2 mins read
Spain says it seized a $153 million super-yacht linked to Russian oligarch Sergei Chemezov, an arms tycoon who worked with Putin as a KGB spy
The 279-foot super-yacht Valerie is linked to Sergei Chemezov, CEO of Russian state-owned defense c…
Huileng Tan
4 mins read
A leaked recording exposed how Belarus' KGB plans its assassinations in Europe
In a 2012 recording, the-then head of the Belarus KGB could be heard planning hits on dissidents wh…
Mitch Prothero
Former KGB spy rates 9 Russian spy scenes in movies
Jack Barsky is a former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the US from 1978 to 1988. After being…
3 mins read
Belarus had KGB agents on the passenger plane that was diverted to arrest a dissident journalist, Ryanair CEO says
Roman Protasevich, 26, was arrested after his Ryanair flight was forced to land in Belarus, where h…