On April 28, 1994, when a bespectacled CIA veteran named Aldrich Ames stood in a US courtroom and confessed to being the mole ...

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

Two former top spy hunters offer exclusive new revelations about their quest to solve America’s greatest espionage mystery ...

From 1974 to 1985, they had a high-ranking agent inside the KGB who supplied them with priceless information: Oleg Gordievsky, who has died at the age of 86. Gordievsky liked to tell a story about ...

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 ...

The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky” (1995). Image As the Cold War wound down, Mr. Gordievsky began writing under his own name, including the book “KGB: The Inside Story,” a collaboration ...

The first thing Oleg Gordievsky did, having decided in July 1985 to defect, was to barricade the door of his Moscow flat. When the KGB men came for him, that would slow them down. He had once been ...

Former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky explains how, during the 1991 coup attempt, a KGB general would probably have arrived at Mikhail Gorbachev's Black Sea resort to organise a peaceful change of ...

(Fiona Hanson/PA via AP, file) LONDON (AP) -- Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86.

LONDON — (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in ...