The KGB would take great care to furnish a convincing ... campaigns for centuries and that many of the deceptive tactics used by the KGB and now used online predated the Soviet Union.

RUSSIA has unleashed a shadowy new spy unit tasked with sabotage, cyber attacks and assassinations across Europe, Western intelligence officials say. The Department of Special Tasks – or SSD ...

A former KGB agent told Insider the biggest thing Putin learned from the Soviet spy agency was "how to lie." A career CIA officer said Putin's ruthless tactics in Ukraine are part of a "KGB ...

The Americans’ KGB agents may use unsettling tactics including seduction, blackmail and murder – but their opposition in the US doesn't exactly take the high road. In fact, the FBI uses many ...

Defectors from the Soviet regime informed Western powers of the KGB’s tactics, including its penchant for difficult-to-detect poisonings. But its power wasn’t only wielded physically.

Now in his third term as president, Putin continues to fund and facilitate ever-bolder cyber and information operations, many of which draw clear parallels to historical KGB active measures in their ...

It turns out Putin doesn’t do jokes. Over Putin’s years in power, not just the Kremlin but almost every branch of the Russian state has been taken over by old KGB men like himself. Last week news ...