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 ...

Putin wins first presidential term; Saudi King Faisal assassinated; Italian fascists set up postwar trade union; Mussolini ...

Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be Britain's most valuable spy inside Russia's intelligence agencies and spent many years leaking information to ...

When the KGB men came for him, that would slow them down. He had once been a star among them. An ideal young recruit from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, expert at languages ...

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 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England ...

KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who defected to Britain in the 70s, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was regarded one of Britain's most valuable spies, providing vital information to the British ...