Category: Russia

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Kim Philby

The Cambridge Five: How an Epic Spy Ring Penetrated British Power

From HistoryExtra, the story of how the Soviet KGB penetrated the upper ranks of British government during and after World War II. The CIA, in the person of James Angleton, was fooled as well. [If you want to know more, see biography of Angleton, THE GHOST: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.]...

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Yevgeny Prigozhin

Decoding the Wagner Group, Russia’s Private Military Company

The New American Foundation has issued a new report on Russian private military security contractors (PMSCs), including Wagner, the mercenary force controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, confidante of Vladimir Putin and financier of the Internet Research Association, which waged a large scale social media campaign to help Donald Trump before and after his election. The report...

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Thanks to Rand Paul, Russian Media Are Naming the Alleged Ukraine Whistleblower

Shortly after Sen. Paul tweeted out an article that speculated in considerable detail about the identity of the whistleblower—with a photograph, a name, and details about the purported political history of a CIA professional—Russian state media followed suit. As if on cue, the Kremlin-controlled heavy hitters—TASS, RT, Rossiya-1—disseminated the same information. But unlike Rand Paul,...

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Russia's FSB

Czech Authorities Bust Russian Spy Network

The network was financed from Russia and the Russian embassy in Prague and was to attack targets in Czechia and its foreign partners through a network of servers, Koudelka said at a security conference in the Chamber of Deputies. “The network was completely broken up and decimated thanks to the NCOZ’s excellent work. The investigation...