A North Korean defector said the regime lives on terror, drugs and weapons, according to the BBC. The habit of secrecy is deep in Kim Kuk Sung's blood. It took several weeks to arrange an interview with North Korea's highest-ranking defector. Former colonel ...
Died Soviet illegal intelligence officer Gohar Vartanyan. Together with her husband, she thwarted the assassination attempt on Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. Soviet intelligence agent Gohar Vartanyan died on November 25 at the age of 93, Meduza writes. Gohar Vartanyan was born in 1926 in Armenia. In the 1930s ...
Ukrainian intelligence officer Eduard Matyukha worked undercover for more than five years in the uncontrolled territory of Donbass and carried out an assignment from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. For some time he was even the “people’s mayor” of the mining town of Gorlovka, and later became the first secretary of the city committee of the “Communist Party” of the so-called...
In the United States, former intelligence officer Irving Isaacson, who called himself “the first spy of the Cold War,” died at the age of 102. Isaacson died March 28 at a hospice facility in Auburn, Maine, his family said. A graduate of Harvard Law School, on the eve of World War II...
On March 4, two people - a 66-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman - were taken to hospital after they fell ill in a shopping center in Salisbury, UK. Witnesses said that they noticed a couple on a bench at the entrance to the store at about 16:00. ...
Former US naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced to life in the US for spying for Israel in 1987, has been released. He was serving his sentence at the Butner Prison, North Carolina. In total, Pollard spent ...
Cedric Belfrage, a well-known Hollywood journalist and film critic in the thirties, was born in London in 1904 into a physicist's family and studied at the University of Cambridge, who left because of his hobby for theater and cinema. After working on critical reviews for the Daily and Sunday Express, Belfrage left for the United States. Following his passions, he ...