Spy hunting shores up Putin’s power—but paralyzes the state.

Swedish diplomat Lennart Petri’s unpublished diary excerpts from the 1950s shed new light on the controversial tenure of Rolf R. Sohlman, Sweden’s long-term Ambassador in Moscow

The spy fiction written by Soviet intelligence officers was far more than propaganda.

Amazon.com: KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union: 9781487548926: Kovacevic, Filip: Books

Praha - Současné ruské zpravodajské služby navazují na hlavní sovětskou tajnou službu KGB především svou protizápadní orientací a metodami náboru agentů založenými na penězích a vydírání. V rozhovoru ...

Secret internal correspondence reveals what indicators KGB used to detect foreign spies

Opinion | The reported flight from Russia to the U.S. of Denis Butsayev, the recently dismissed deputy minister for natural resources and ecology, fits a pattern that has emerged since the full-scale ...

There is nothing more revealing about the KGB approach to their agents than the detailed questionnaire submitted upon their recruitment

While there is no evidence that this spy school ever existed, internal KGB communications reveal that KGB counterintelligence leadership believed that it did

YouTube video by U.S. Naval Institute

My introduction to the English translation of the KGB Training Manual ALBERT: Exposing the Dangle available on "Foreign Office by Michael Weiss" Substack

Written in 1966 for Soviet intelligence trainees, this KGB manual tells the story of a spy recruited in Istanbul whose alleged double game ended in arrest and execution.

H-Diplo Review 657Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio, eds. Archives and Emotions: International Dialogues Across Past, Present, and Future. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-3504-1518-8.

A discovery in the files of the Lithuanian KGB

Nomma Zarubina, convicted of lying to the FBI, is the latest Russian woman accused of using her sexual wiles for spying

Nomma Zarubina, convicted of lying to the FBI, is the latest Russian woman accused of using her sexual wiles for spying