They later studied together at the Andropov Institute. Zhirnov is a former commander at the KGB, the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until December 1991. He has lived in France ...

But the British authorities knew more than they let on. From 1974 to 1985, they had a high-ranking agent inside the KGB who supplied them with priceless information: Oleg Gordievsky, who has died ...

FORMER KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky ... Press Association The infamous spy was the highest ranking Russian official to defect to the UK and was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the boot ...

He then passed on an unprecedented amount of information to British security while serving as KGB bureau chief in London. His help led to the expulsion of 25 Soviet agents working undercover in the UK ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since ...

The claim gained traction when the news website The Daily Beast published a now-deleted story (archived) titled "Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump," using only Mussayev's ...

The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate ...

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 ...