Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to ...

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whose ascent to power helped bring the Cold War to a close. But in 1985, just as he had been appointed to the key post of head of the KGB residency in London, he came under suspicion as a British spy.

U-2 pilots conducted a total of 102 overflights of the People’s Republic of China from 1962 to 1968. The U-2 “Dragon Lady” ...

A collection of never-before-seen files, photographs and items from MI5's own archives are going on display for the first ...

Over and over you see it, people rank Sean Connery as the best James Bond, even now, nearly 55 years after playing the legendary British spy for the ... up of the Cold War in the 1960s, they ...

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That MI6 was prepared to go to such lengths to get him out was a testament to the importance officials attached to the man widely regarded as the most significant spy of the later Cold War years.