The civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union for 15 years – MI5 ...
9 hours ago · The National Archives has released declassified MI5 files, including the confession of a civil servant who worked in the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Foreign Office in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s – and spied for the Soviet Union at the same time. John Cairncross – known as a member of the famous ...
Category:Soviet spies - Wikipedia
Pages in category "Soviet spies" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Soviet espionage in the United States - Wikipedia
As early as the 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its GRU, OGPU, NKVD, and KGB intelligence agencies, used Russian and foreign-born nationals (resident spies), as well as Communists of American origin, to perform espionage activities in the United States, forming various spy rings.
Queen Elizabeth II was not officially told Anthony Blunt was Soviet spy ...
MI5's top interrogator was baffled by Philby, admitting he could not determine whether he was a Soviet spy PA Media Unlike government departments, MI5 is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace ...
2 days ago · Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries.
Oleg Penkovsky - Wikipedia
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Пенько́вский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) [1] was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Robert Hanssen — FBI
On February 18, 2001, Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested and charged with committing espionage on behalf of the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union and its successors.
8 Spies Who Leaked Atomic Bomb Intelligence to the Soviets
Aug 18, 2021 · These eight men and women (among others) shared atomic secrets that enabled the Soviet Union to successfully detonate its first nuclear weapon by 1949.
Rudolf Abel | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer, convicted in the United States in 1957 for conspiring to transmit military secrets to the Soviet Union. He was exchanged in 1962 for the American aviator Francis Gary Powers, who had been imprisoned as a spy in the Soviet Union since 1960.
Hollow Nickel/Rudolf Abel - FBI
A hollow nickel found by a Brooklyn newspaper boy leads to the identification of a Russian spy in 1957.