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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

The Independent UK

Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86

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

Evening Standard

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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Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86

Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5

The Guardian - UK

Oleg Gordievsky obituary

Russian spy who was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain

The Guardian - UK

KGB thought Lee Harvey Oswald was a 'poor shot' and other takeaways from JFK files

Donald Trump presides over release of thousands of pages of documents

Evening Standard

JFK assassination files: Lee Harvey Oswald was regarded as a ‘poor shot’ by the KGB, newly-released papers reveal

More than 1,100 files consisting of in excess of 31,000 pages have been posted on the US National Archives and Records Administration’s website

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70 Times Evil Geniuses Pretended To Be Someone Else And Got Away With It (New Pics)

From a Man United Fan on the field in full kit, pretending to be part of the team, to a Mexican guy trying to cross the U.S. bored disguised as a car seat, these people could win an Oscar for their attempts to fake it 'til you make it. The…

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Hundreds of Ukraine supporters condemn Trump at US embassy protest

A banner branded the US president a ‘KGB agent’ with the code name President Krasnov

Evening Standard

Liz Cheney Declares Trump and Vance 'Abandoned' American Values Following Heated Showdown With Zelenskyy

Former Wyoming Representative and long-time Trump adversary Liz Cheney has commented on President Donald Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, criticizing the 47th President for "attacking" the Ukrainian President.

Latin Times

Former UK Spy Chief Weighs In on Bombshell Claims That Trump Was Recruited by Russia’s KGB in 1987!

A former KGB officer has made a staggering accusation, claiming that US President Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian asset more than 40 years ago under the codename "Krasnov."

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Elon Musk’s protege ‘Big Balls’ is grandson of executed KGB agent, report says

DOGE staffer Edward Coristine, best known by vulgar nickname, related to late Soviet spy Valery Martynov

The Independent UK

Quantum computing is already here, sort of

Brief letters: Semiconductors | Say it with flowers, two days before | Trouble getting up | KGB keeping busy, despite its demise

The Guardian - UK

Chief whip’s diaries reveal rescue of Tory MP from ‘KGB agent’ in London brothel

From rescuing an MP from a suspected ‘KGB agent’ to MPs’ demands for peerages, stories from former chief whip Simon Hart’s diaries have drawn attention

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Orgies, fights and ‘KGB agents’ in brothels: Most explosive claims from Tory chief whip’s new book

Simon Hart’s new book makes several eye-opening claims about the final days of Tory rule

Evening Standard

Tory MP in Bayswater brothel with 'KGB agent', 12 naked women and CCTV in desperate call to Chief Whip

A taxi was sent on an ‘extraction mission’ to rescue the Conservative backbencher

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‘Strange Earth’: 50 Happenings That Are Borderline Unbelievable

The members of this group share unsettling conspiracy theories, bizarre coincidences, unexpected animal behaviors, and everything else that challenges our understanding of reality. The post ‘Strange Earth’: 50 Happenings That Are Borderline Unbelievable first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Secret police tricked Carlos the Jackal into fleeing Prague, archives reveal

New book casts doubt on accepted picture of communist bloc support for violent radicals during cold war

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MI5 files: The biggest secrets uncovered from the Cambridge Five archives

From a major UK film star to the Queen’s senior courtier – declassifed documents tell a new story about British spies

Evening Standard

MI5 feared film star Dirk Bogarde could be target of KGB sting attempt

Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians.

The Guardian - UK

Actor Dirk Bogarde was ‘disturbed’ by KGB sting warning, declassified files reveal

MI5 told Bogarde in 1971 that he had been identified as ‘practising homosexual’ of interest by Russian spies

Evening Standard

Elizabeth II ‘very calm’ when warned about Russian spy Anthony Blunt, newly released MI5 documents show

MI5 reveals confessions of three members of infamous Cambridge Five spy ring as tranche of documents released into National Archives

The Independent UK

Kim Philby owned up to spying for Russia – but said he would do it all again

Newly declassified files show the moment the notorious Cambridge double agent finally confessed to his treachery.

The Independent UK

Elizabeth II kept in dark over Palace traitor Anthony Blunt

Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after royal courtier confessed to spying for the KGB.

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Cambridge spy Blunt feared violence from his KGB controller

Newly-declassified files show notorious double agent refused ‘insane’ order to follow fellow spies Burgess and Maclean to Moscow.

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