The Venona Project was the code name used for U.S. Signal Intelligence efforts to collect and to decrypt Soviet NKVD and GRU messages in the 1940s. Sometimes called Arlington Hall from the name of ...

She poisoned Bishop Romzha by an injection of curare (a poison originating from plant extracts used as a paralyzing agent) provided by the feared Soviet NKVD state security agency. According to ...

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, among them over 7,000 women, children and ...