How a KGB archivist defected with a treasure trove of Soviet secrets — and even his family had no clue

On Nov. 7, 1992, exactly 75 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, a yellow minibus with a fading “Baltic Tours” sign pulled ...
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Victory without peace: What the Soviet Union became after World War II

The defeat of Nazi Germany secured Soviet survival but not relief from fear, repression, or sacrifice. This documentary ...

Ukraine War Has Gone On Longer Than The Soviet's Fight In WWII

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

Ex-CIA agent Aldrich Ames convicted of spying for Soviet Union dies in prison, US officials say

Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of Russians who were spying for the United States. View on euronews ...
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He came to the US as a child refugee from the former Soviet Union. Now he’s a father facing deportation to Ukraine

(CNN) — Roman Surovtsev was prompt in picking up his two daughters from school every afternoon. It’s important to him to be there for his smiley 3- and 5-year-old girls, peppering them with questions ...

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold U.S. secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison at 84

WASHINGTON — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a ...

Sergei Fedorov's secret escape from Soviet Union helped save Red Wings

We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

Harry Dexter White: Architect of Postwar Economy and Alleged Soviet Spy

Discover Harry Dexter White's role in shaping the postwar global economy through the Bretton Woods Agreement and the controversy surrounding his alleged Soviet espionage.