A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...

With a fundamentally different playing field today, the United States and its Western partners should adapt, if not adopt, ...

Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to ...

Cold War movies have been a staple in Hollywood since the war first began. In the dying days of World War II, Hollywood's ...

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 ...

Fill in your bracket and compare your picks with other readers. 1️⃣ Cold War secrets: A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the height of tensions between the US and curre ...

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 evolves ...

U-2 pilots conducted a total of 102 overflights of the People’s Republic of China from 1962 to 1968. Mission planning was ...

It is a peaceful scene today, but this remote site once played a crucial role in Britain's Cold War defences. In the 1960s, as tensions with the Soviet Union grew, a handful of brave engineers and ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent 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 ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky passed intelligence to the British spy agency MI6, sharing secrets that ...