Emir Kusturica, the great Serbian director, hops to the other side of the camera to play KGB defector Vladimir Vetrov in the French film "Farewell," from French director Christian Carion. Starring ...

Years after defecting from Russia and resettling in the US, former KGB officer Alexander Zaporozhsky was lured back to the country he had once betrayed. The CIA warned him not to go. Several senior ...

His warnings about Soviet fears of a NATO nuclear attack helped de-escalate tensions between the superpowers. In 1985, he was suspected of being a British spy and recalled to Moscow, but escaped to ...

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His whereabouts remain a mystery. Even his own relatives have no way of contacting him. He reportedly moved to New Zealand, though that could be a bluff. The only thing certain? He must be living ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he had lived ...

The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage.

Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky has died at the age of 86. Code-named Hetman, Mr Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a former KGB colonel who defected to Britain in the 1980s and was later honoured by Queen Elizabeth II, has died, British media reported on Friday. The Barron's news department was ...