A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for 37 years ...

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

This concept of great power competition, one born from a misreading of the Cold War, is our concern. It elides the violence ...

Secret information hidden in this toilet was collected periodically by Harry Houghton. In 1961 he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment" ...

Melita Norwood was the KGB's longest-serving female agent in Britain, until being exposed in 1992 by legendary defector ...

In the wake of Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth’s passing, let us take a moment to revisit some of his classics ...

He died as he lived: with flair, precision, and a plot worthy of his own pen.

Pens that shoot, cameras in matchboxes, poison-tipped umbrellas—the Cold War wasn’t just fought with words. These were the ...

Dylan Earl has admitted orchestrating an arson attack on a warehouse and plotting to burn down businesses and kidnap their Russian dissident owner.

A forensic analysis of birth certificates used by deep-cover operatives suggests a tantalizing possibility. By Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz have covered ...

Warfronts KGB – The Cold War’s Invisible Army Posted: April 3, 2025 | Last updated: April 3, 2025 Chronicling nearly four decades of activity, this feature examines the rise and fall of the ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky passed intelligence to the British spy agency MI6, sharing secrets that ...