In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases.

On March 29, 1951, controversial trial came to a close with a guilty verdict for three defendants accused of espionage.

The ornate double barrel weapon was one of two handed over by the Russian dictator during his unprecedented state visit to ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has ...

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.

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 ...

The release of as many as 80,000 pages of classified files comes after decades of smaller releases of redacted files.

At the rate that the Trump administration is alienating America’s friends and comforting its enemies, Russians may soon be triumphantly celebrating VA Day — Victory Over America Day — with ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “You’re next,” said a Russian historian I ...