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Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorate the friendship of the US and the Soviet Union. A hand-carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States. The ambassador ...

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

Joseph Stalin was a big fan of American Westerns but was bothered by John Wayne's powerful embodiment of America and so ...

During the Cold War, the KGB gave Le Monde the code name "Vestnik" ("messenger" in Russian), but the newspaper was also simply referred to as "Monde" in exchanges with Moscow headquarters ...

According to the former KGB officer, Putin's murder benefits many in Russia. For example, Igor Girkin, whom the dictator put behind bars. Girkin considers himself a patriot of Russia and has publicly ...

MI5 feared that Bogarde could have been the target of a gay 'entrapment' by the KGB, after it was claimed his name was on a list of 'six practising British homosexuals' passed to Russians.

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KGB archives, handed over to the British in 1992, by defector Vassili Mitrokhin after the fall of the USSR, now provide previously unpublished information on Soviet spies' level of penetration ...

Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the ...

Actor Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” sting by the KGB, newly-declassified files reveal today. The intelligence documents released to the ...