She became suspicious when she discovered large deposits in the bank account of Aldrich Ames, whose betrayal cost the lives ...

Chronicling nearly four decades of activity, this feature examines the rise and fall of the KGB as the Soviet Union’s core intelligence force. The story begins with its brutal predecessors and ...

Again, the Soviet example is a good one. In the lead-up to the second World War, and repeatedly during the war years, the Soviet Union squandered intelligence from the best spy network ever.

A man charged with espionage against Warsaw and its allies was remanded in custody for three months by a Polish court on ...

Former intelligence officials spoke about Soviet espionage efforts prior to and during the Cold War. Among the topics they addressed were methods of intelligence gathering, counterintelligence ...

For Soviet intelligence, an obvious benefit of using TASS for espionage was that, as an official organ of the Soviet state, it enjoyed diplomatic immunity.

American intelligence before World War II was often as-needed and ad hoc. It could claim some critical successes, but it was far from the global network of informants used by the Soviet Union.

Once-secret government documents are revealing new, long-hidden details on one of the CIA's biggest Cold War controversies, involving defecting Soviet intelligence agents and U.S. counterspy ...

In reality, the man was a Soviet intelligence agent named Aleksandr Demyanov. One of the most successful intelligence operations in the history of the USSR had now entered its active phase.

A spy working for one of the Asian countries formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union was detained by Poland’s Internal ...

Military vehicles carry China's DF-41 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles in a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images ...

The Hughes Glomar Explorer off the coast of Catalina Island, Calif., in August 1975, a year after its secret CIA mission to raise a Soviet sub that sank in the Pacific Ocean. This was one of the ...