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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

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 Guardian - AU · Apr 18, 2025

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 Independent UK · Apr 14, 2025

‘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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2025

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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

Evening Standard · Apr 7, 2025

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.

Euronews · Mar 22, 2025

KGB defector and Cold War spy Oleg Gordievsky dies age 86

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

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2025

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.

Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2025

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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 · Mar 22, 2025

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 · Mar 22, 2025

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

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2025

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 · Mar 21, 2025

Oleg Gordievsky obituary

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2025

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 · Mar 19, 2025

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

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2025

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Bored Panda · Mar 17, 2025

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…

Evening Standard · Mar 5, 2025

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

Latin Times · Feb 28, 2025

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.

The Fashion Central · Feb 26, 2025

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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The Independent UK · Feb 24, 2025

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 Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2025

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 · Feb 20, 2025

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

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2025

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 · Feb 19, 2025

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

Bored Panda · Feb 17, 2025

‘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.

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2025

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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