For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, ...

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from ...

But text messages between the pair, written in the late summer of 2021 and recovered from Mr. Shmyrev’s phone, reveal the ...

Over the years, television has presented us with many spies as clever and exciting as James Bond. They have placed us amid wild, dangerous, and exciting adventures.