The Iron Curtain metaphor was not an original coinage by Churchill. KGB-Soviet political police Abbreviations of Russian for Committee for State Security. Many refer to it as the Cheka ...

The claim gained traction when the news website The Daily Beast published a now-deleted story (archived) titled "Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump," using only Mussayev's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the cold war, it sometimes seemed that the KGB was better at recruiting western spies than the west ...

When the KGB was rebranded and relaunched in the early 90s, it was assumed this now creaking engine of state authority would wilt along with the system it represented. But with a former KGB ...

(Whereas) Karpov was a really hard guard of the Soviet society at that ... was an agent of the KGB, an argument Sosonko ...