The month of April saw the death of history's first Latin American pope. Known for his embrace of the downtrodden, Pope ...

The CIA officer spent nearly a decade selling secrets to the Soviet Union, leading to the deaths of at least 10 Western ...

But that story has a grisly ending, which the tale of the second Oleg does not. Penkovsky had taken crazy risks to serve the British. He was unmasked and executed by being strapped to a stretcher and ...

The moment when the great doors of St Peter’s balcony swing open, announcing a new pope, seems to call for trumpets and drums. Instead, on March 13th 2013, the figure in white said: “Good ...

The man, sweating with fear in the boot of the Ford Sierra, was Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who had for more than a decade been passing the most closely-guarded secrets of ...

His manners were impeccable. That was the first impression Mario Vargas Llosa made on others. He was polite and cordial, his fluent conversation punctured by the tic of a nervous laugh. Yet, as ...

Oleg Gordievsky is a towering figure in the world of espionage who impacted the Cold War at a crucial time When posted to Moscow as young diplomats in the early 1980s, we were warned, by gruff men in ...

Interviewing Margaret Thatcher was the most exciting and scariest assignment of my career. I was working at SHE magazine as a writing sub in my first job in journalism after university. My editor ...

A teacher has said she was held in a police cell for seven-and-a-half hours after confiscating two iPads that belonged to her daughters. In an interview with LBC, Vanessa Brown said she has ...

But in a recent Morning Star column Murray takes the opportunity to smear someone who did. Oleg Gordievsky, who died on March 4th, was a KGB colonel turned secret agent for Britain. Like many others ...

In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...