As a senior MI5 officer during World War Two, Blunt had passed vast quantities of secret intelligence to his KGB handlers ... On March 19, MI5 director ­general Michael Hanley reported that ...

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THE West can crush Russia's war machine and force Putin to the negotiating table with a Cold War-style strategy, a former Nato adviser has warned. Ian Brzezinski, a former deputy assistant US ...

A KGB spy who caused havoc for the West is believed to have been scammed out of tens of thousands. Gerontiy Lazovik thought he was helping Russian law enforcement get close to criminals ...

Oleg Kalugin, a KGB general who defected to the U.S., wrote in his 1994 autobiography that in the 1970s and 1980s his agency had 'excellent sources in Australia'. Among those sources were what ...

Actor Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” sting by the KGB, newly-declassified files reveal today. The intelligence documents released to the ...

Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the ...

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