In the 1950s, the British intelligence community and the British press were riveted on the subject of espionage. Two diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, had defected to Moscow and it was clear ...

A former CIA chief believes Russian President Vladimir Putin could be a "dead man walking" because the casualty rate soldiers are suffering in the war in Ukraine have disgusted his military leaders.

The Cuban leader, who led a revolution in 1959 that deposed the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista, was the target of Washington’s intelligence agencies throughout his life. Vladimir Putin’s recent ...

Aldrich Ames at a federal courthouse in Virginia in February 1994 Sandra Grimes knew that one of her colleagues was a traitor - one of the biggest in US history, as it turned out. She helped put him ...

The former CIA chief said Vladimir Putin would not back down from Ukraine war Olson didn't rule out assassination as a way to remove the Russian leader from power He said Russians would be motivated ...

A Kremlin ruling last week demanded all Russian scientists ask permission to meet foreign colleagues and report on their exchanges, invoking fears that both sides could be using Cold War-era espionage ...

The CIA is under renewed pressure to recruit and maintain effective spy networks in Pakistan, following the U.S. withdrawal from neighbouring Afghanistan (AFP via Getty Images) The latest headlines ...

Jim Angleton was one of the most complex and controversial intelligence officers of the 20th century. Born in December 1917 and educated at a public school in England and at Yale University, Angleton ...

Sandra Grimes knew that one of her colleagues was a traitor - one of the biggest in US history, as it turned out. She helped put him in prison for the rest of his life. Her story is now told in a TV ...