John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

Joseph Stalin was a big fan of American Westerns but was bothered by John Wayne's powerful embodiment of America and so ...

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Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorate the friendship of the US and the Soviet Union. A hand-carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States. The ambassador ...

A KGB spy who caused havoc for the West is believed to have been scammed out of tens of thousands. Gerontiy Lazovik thought he was helping Russian law enforcement get close to criminals ...

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MI5 feared that Bogarde could have been the target of a gay 'entrapment' by the KGB, after it was claimed his name was on a list of 'six practising British homosexuals' passed to Russians.

KGB archives, handed over to the British in 1992, by defector Vassili Mitrokhin after the fall of the USSR, now provide previously unpublished information on Soviet spies' level of penetration ...

Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the ...

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