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The terrifying crimes of the Latvian KGB

The Spectator 06 Jul 2025
Known as the Corner House, the two-foot-wide door into the old KGB Latvian HQ would be easy to miss amidst the wide boulevards and the ornate, art nouveau, balconied apartments and shops of the Latvian capital.
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Oil tycoon linked to ex-KGB spy dies after plunging 180ft from luxury apartment in latest ...

The Sun 04 Jul 2025
A RUSSIAN oil tycoon has died after falling 180ft from a tower block in the latest in a string of mysterious deaths ... The firm is headed up by former KGB spy, Nikolai Tokarev, 74, who served alongside Putin in Germany during the Cold War ... Petersburg ... .
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How a Moscow archivist exposed the KGB, file by file

New Statesman 25 Jun 2025
The talk was of Gorbachev’s economic reforms, but Tallinners looked harried and cowed, and they were mindful not to dally outside the KGB headquarters on Pagari Street ... The initials “KGB” came to have flesh-creeping associations for him.
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Trump Sends Envoy to Belarus, Courting Ties With Russia’s Close Ally

New York Times 21 Jun 2025
The outreach to Belarus’s autocratic leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, comes as the country has released at least 14 political prisoners ... .
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KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

The Guardian 14 Jun 2025
Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who spent years copying top-secret documents on some of the most sensitive Soviet spies and operations, ...
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Wagner Group told British proxy to use KGB drama ‘as manual’

AOL 06 Jun 2025
The Wagner Group told a British proxy to use a TV drama about KGB spies in the US “as a manual”, a court heard ... The Americans, about KGB agents undercover in the US, “in order to understand work”.
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As the Soviet Union Fell, Did the K.G.B. Leave Behind a Gift in Brazil?

New York Times 22 May 2025
A forensic analysis of birth certificates used by deep-cover operatives suggests a tantalizing possibility ... .
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Soviet Spy Cameras Disguised as Briefcases For Sale at Leica Auction

PetaPixel 16 May 2025
A series of inventive spy cameras used by the KGB during the Cold War are set to be auctioned next month at the Leitz Photographica Auction in Germany. [Read More] ... .
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