It was called "The Crime of the Century," one of the most famous espionage cases of the Cold War. In 1953 ... accused of running a spy ring that tried to help the Soviet Union make an atomic ...

Why not,” Viktor Belenko quipped years later, recalling the day he rolled the dice on a Cold War escape that would upend ...

Here are 10 spy satellites that orbited the globe during the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the U.S. had to play catchup. In 1958, the country sent its own satellite ...

He worked for British intelligence for more than a decade during the chilliest years of the Cold War. Former Soviet spy Oleg Gordievsky after receives the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order ...

The Brooklyn Eagle described the Soviet intelligence officer as a ... mentalfloss.com as How a Nickel and a Paperboy Brought ...

Back in the 1960s, at the height of the superpower Cold War ... over the Soviet Union. It photographed more in a single pass than the U-2 aircraft had ever covered.” The era of the spy satellite ...

Igor Gouzenko, Oleg Penkovsky and Oleg Gordievsky are not names that immediately come to mind when thinking about the people who influenced the outcome of the Cold ... the war, Soviet spy rings ...

“Cold War: Soviets ... and iconic relics from the Soviet Union. These rare artifacts are on loan from the CIA Museum, International Spy Museum, National Atomic Testing Museum, Wende Museum ...

Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet military design bureau, quickly becomes one of the most valuable U.S. spies during the height of the Cold War, handing over Soviet secrets that allowed the ...

He was the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War. Documents declassified in 2014 showed that Britain considered Gordievsky so valuable that Thatcher sought to cut a deal with Moscow ...