Declassified files: how trained CIA pigeons and dolphins spied on the USSR

The CIA has declassified details of its Cold War spy missions that used pigeons. They were trained to take part in secret missions to photograph secret objects in the USSR. Writes about this BBC. The declassified documents also claim that the raven was used to drop ...

Spies and a coup: ForumDaily journalist released a book

At the end of November, the well-known Ukrainian publishing house "Spirit I Litera" released an electronic version of a new book by the American expert, writer and ForumDaily journalist Ksenia Kirillova, "A Feat of Calculus". In the author's previous book, the historical spy novel In the Web of Madness, in addition to the intense struggle of the special services, there were ...

Former MI6 agent: Britain has evidence of Trump and Putin's connection, but they are hiding

According to the former British spy, evidence that Russia is “likely supporting” US President Donald Trump has been hidden by the UK government. Business Insider writes about it. According to the agent, the British government withheld evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably held on to ...

An American in the USSR kept a diary about the country, and the KGB wrote down his every step: now the texts can be compared

Teddy Rowe's notes are a unique historical document that allows you to see the Soviet Union through the eyes of an American. These are hundreds of pages of typewritten text that has never been published before, writes Present Tense. In April 1968, an American tourist, Teddy Rowe, flew to Moscow from Washington. ...

Either a Soviet resident or an American spy: a non-trivial story of a double agent

Journalist and intellectual, security officer and defector. Either a Soviet resident, or an American spy, or a Latvian, or a German, or Imant, or Peter Friedrich. There is still a fictitious name on his grave near Washington, according to 'Present ...

Mexico recruited Russian citizen arrested in Florida

The US authorities in Miami (Florida) arrested a Mexican citizen who, according to them, was recruited by a representative of the Russian authorities in order to find the car of a "source in the US government" and establish its number, the US Department of Justice reported, Voice of America writes. Hector Alejandro ...

Declassified data: how Soviet spies worked in different countries of the world

Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin named seven intelligence officers who for many years supplied Moscow with classified data, posing as the indigenous people of Europe, America and Asia. The official biographies of these people are extremely scarce. The BBC managed to collect ...

A court in Canada decided the fate of the son of four Russian spies deported from the United States

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to revoke the citizenship of Alexander Vavilov, one of the two sons of Russian spy Andrei Bezrukov, expelled from the United States in 2010, who lived in America under the name Donald Howard Heathfield. Now, according to media reports, he works for the Rosneft company...

'Billion Dollar Spy': Former KGB Major Dies in Virginia

In the city of Vienne, Virginia, at the age of 73, former KGB major Viktor Sheimov, who in 1980 fled the USSR with the help of the CIA, died, writes News.ru. According to Olga Sheimova, her husband died on October 18 from complications due to ...

“Put on his knees and threatened with a gun”: an American accused of espionage in Russia complained of ill-treatment

Former US Marine Paul Whelan, accused of espionage in Russia, said in court that a guard in the detention center had threatened him with a pistol. The prosecutor's office and court, according to Whelan, do not pay attention to his complaints. Writes about this BBC. The Lefortovo Court of Moscow considered ...

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