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'Trump is falling for Putin's flattery'- Russian opposition activist, Kara-Murza

Russian opposition activist and former political prisoner, Vladimir Kara Murza says Western leaders’ treatment of Putin in the past was "shocking and shameful", and gave Putin leeway and erode democracy in Russia.

Euronews

Friday essay: ‘nothing quite like it in the history of espionage’ – the Russian spies who pretended to be American

In the thrilling finale of the TV series The Americans, set during the Reagan administration, deep-cover KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are faced with a difficult decision. Posing as an ordinary American married couple, for decades they have raised children, filed tax returns and slipped effortlessly into the rhythms…

The Conversation

From a rectal kit to a Berlin Wall-era transmitter: the artefacts of Australia’s spy museum which doesn’t exist – yet

More than a dozen intelligence services are represented in Mike Pritchard’s collection of spy gadgets. He wants to bring them to the world

The Guardian - AU

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KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations

The Guardian - UK

Wagner Group UK proxy instructed to use Cold War drama as a ‘manual’

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

Evening Standard

26 CIA Spy Tools So Ridiculous, People Thought They Were Movie Props

Some of the gadgets used by the CIA have been declassified. Here they are.

Bored Panda

31 Examples Of CIA Spy Technology That Prove Human Ingenuity Knows No Boundaries

Some of the gadgets used by the CIA have been declassified. Here they are.

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In 1990, my mother fought for Romania’s freedom. Will the revolution’s children do the same?

Sunday’s election could threaten the country’s place in Europe if Russia’s dark arts and historical amnesia win the day, says Romanian-born writer Larisa Faber

The Guardian - UK

The Comedy About Spies at Noel Coward Theatre review: bungling, buffoonish hilarity

4/5 Finally, Mischief may have found a match for their smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong

Evening Standard

‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB

The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin: After 25 years in power, what next for Russia’s president?

From chasing rats as a child to the KGB, how 72-year-old Putin came to power – and what drives him now.

Al Jazeera

The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – gripping true stories of spies who lived deep undercover

An eye-opening account of the old Soviet tactic of embedding secret agents where you’d least expect them

The Guardian - UK

NATO must show strength, but only US can halt Putin, Duda says

In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Polish President Andrzej Duda stressed that deterrence, not fear, is NATO's best defence strategy.

Euronews

The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight

The strange stories of the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes make compelling reading

The Guardian - UK

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Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: a KGB ‘illegal’ tells all, a cold case half-solved, and ‘the Citizen Kane of rock movies’

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Independent UK

CIA file about aliens attacking Soviet forces goes viral

Red Army soldiers were allegedly turned into limestone pillars by extraterrestrials in revenge for shooting down their spacecraft over Siberia, according to a declassified document

The Guardian - UK

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

The long read: For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story

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Evening Standard

The rise of sextortion: inside the legal unit helping ultra-rich men in crisis

The capital is seeing blackmail cases related to sex, money and power skyrocket. Olive Pometsey investigates

Euronews

Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB spy who defected to the UK in the Cold War, dies at 86

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.

The Independent UK

KGB defector and Cold War spy Oleg Gordievsky dies age 86

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

Evening Standard

Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War.

The Independent UK

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the Cold War’s most important spies

Evening Standard

Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

The Independent UK

Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England

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