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Major symposium on Dutch double spy Mata Hari to take place in London

A symposium about the life, activities and legacy of World War I-era double spy Mata Hari is to take place in London this month, on the 100th anniversary of her death by execution.

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Cold-War-era Soviet spy George Blake issues rare statement from Moscow

One of the Cold War’s most recognizable spy figures, George Blake, who escaped to the Soviet Union after betraying British intelligence, issued a rare statement last week, praising the successor agency...

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MI6 chiefs used secret slush fund to finance operations, document shows

Successive directors of the Secret Intelligence Service used a secret slush fund to finance spy operations without British government oversight after World War II, according to a top-secret document...

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CIA believed Yugoslavia was on the brink of going nuclear in 1975

The United States Central Intelligence Agency believed that Yugoslavia was on the brink of becoming a nuclear-armed state in 1975, due partly to assistance from Washington, according to newly...

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MI5 releases new information about Soviet ‘Portland Spy Ring’

Files released on Monday by the British government reveal new evidence about one of the most prolific Soviet spy rings that operated in the West after World War II, which became known as the Portland...

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Israel has secretly worked with Emirates against Iran for decades, report...

A lengthy exposé by a leading American newsmagazine has claimed that Israel and the United Arab Emirates, two countries that officially have no relations, have been secretly collaborating for more than...

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Nazi official Heinrich Himmler’s daughter worked for West German intelligence

The daughter of Heinrich Himmler, who was second in command in the German Nazi Party until the end of World War II, worked for West German intelligence in the 1960s, it has been confirmed.

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British police arrest man over mystery killing of Seychelles leader in 1985

A man has been arrested by British counterterrorism police in Northern Ireland, reportedly in connection with the assassination of a Seychelles exiled political leader in London in 1985.

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Japan releases files on 1942 Tokyo spy ring that helped USSR win World War II

Japan has released secret documents from 1942 relating to the Tokyo spy ring led by Richard Sorge, a German who spied for the USSR and is often credited with helping Moscow win World War II.

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Pro-Soviet radicals planned to kill Gorbachev in East Germany, book claims

A group of German radicals planned to assassinate Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in East Germany in 1989, thus triggering a Soviet military invasion of the country, according to a new book written by...

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Book alleges 1980s British Labour Party leader was Soviet agent

The leadership of the Labour Party in Britain has reacted with disdain after a new book by a leading author and columnist claimed that Michael Foot, who led the Party in the early 1980s was paid agent...

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New clues may help locate lost intelligence files from 1938...

Nearly 2,000 missing British intelligence files relating to the so-called Munich Agreement, a failed attempt by Britain, France and Italy to appease Adolf Hitler in 1938, may not have been destroyed,...

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New book names ex-KGB defector who outed FBI agent Robert Hanssen as Russian spy

A new book reveals for the first time the name of a former intelligence officer of the Soviet KGB who helped American authorities arrest Robert Hanssen, an American spy for the Soviet Union and Russia.

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Moscow names intersection after Kim Philby, British spy for the USSR

In a sign of worsening relations between the United Kingdom and Russia, a busy intersection in Moscow has been named after Kim Philby, the British senior intelligence officer who secretly spied for the...

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Morton Sobell, convicted of conspiracy in the Rosenberg espionage case, dies...

Morton Sobell, an American radar engineer who in 1951 was convicted of conspiracy alongside Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in one of the Cold War’s most prominent espionage cases, has died at 101 years old.

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Germany extradites spy to Croatia to serve 30-year sentence for role in...

Germany has extradited a former senior official of the Yugoslav intelligence service to Croatia, where he is expected to serve a 30-year prison sentence for organizing the assassination of a dissident...

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Extracts from Kim Philby’s espionage confession published today for the first...

Extensive extracts from the confession of Kim Philby, one of the Cold War’s most prolific double spies, are scheduled to be released today for the first time by Britain’s National Archives.

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Victor Sheymov, among Cold War’s most important KGB defectors, dies at 73

Victor Ivanovich Sheymov, who is often referred to as one of the most important intelligence defectors of the Cold War, has reportedly died in the American state of Virginia.

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Russian security services honor members of the Cambridge spy ring with plaque

The intelligence service of Russia has openly honored two British members of the so-called Cambridge Five spy ring, who caused great controversy during the Cold War by defecting to Moscow.

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Swiss neutrality ‘shattered’ as leading cryptologic firm revealed to be CIA...

Switzerland is reeling from the shock caused by revelations last week that Crypto AG, the world’s leading manufacturer or cryptologic equipment during the Cold War, whose clients included over 120...

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Analysis: A look at the CIA’s half-century-old ‘disease intelligence’ program

The general discussion about how and when the White House was alerted by its spy agencies about COVID-19, points to the existence of ‘disease intelligence’ programs in the United States Intelligence...

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Researchers find lost interview of MI6 officer who helped plan 1953 coup in Iran

British researchers have found a lost interview by a senior British intelligence officer who led the joint Anglo-American coup in Iran in 1953.

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Opinion: Mishandled analysis of 1982 Tyre attack had implications for US, France

BETWEEN 1982 AND 1983, 450 defense personnel and civilians from Israel, the United States and France were killed in Lebanon as a result of four consecutive terrorist attacks conducted by Hezbollah. For...

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George Blake, arguably the most prolific Soviet spy of the Cold War, dies at 98

GEORGE BLAKE, A DUTCH-born British intelligence officer, whose espionage for the Soviet Union gained him notoriety in the West and hero status in Moscow, has died aged 98. His death was announced on...

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Ion Pacepa, Cold War’s highest-ranking Soviet Bloc defector, dies of COVID-19

ION MIHAI PACEPA, WHO defected to the West as acting head of the Romanian intelligence service, making him the Cold War’s highest-ranking defector from the Soviet Bloc , has reportedly died in the...

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Cambridge spy ring member gave USSR British royals’ pro-Nazi letters

ANTHONY BLUNT, A MEMBER of the so-called Cambridge ring of communist spies, gave Soviet intelligence private letters written by members of the British royal family, which revealed “the depth of their...

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Vienna’s wartime Gestapo chief worked for West German intelligence, records show

THE HEAD OF THE secret police in Nazi-occupied Vienna, who oversaw the mass deportation of Austrian Jews to concentration camps, worked for West Germany’s postwar spy agency, according to newly...

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Israel likely behind 1981 bombings of German, Swiss engineering firms, expert...

ISRAEL'S PRIMARY EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE agency, the Mossad, was likely behind a series of mysterious bombings in 1981, which targeted German and Swiss engineering firms believed to be aiding the...

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West German intelligence infiltrated Adolf Eichmann trial in Israel,...

WEST GERMAN SPIES INFILTRATED the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, in order to limit its damage on the reputation of senior West German politicians who had a Nazi past....

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Research sheds light on Japan’s wartime espionage network inside the United...

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the wartime intelligence exploits of the Allies against Japan. Such exploits range from the United States’ success in breaking the Japanese JN-25 naval code, to the...

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