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SLIDESHOW: CIA Spy Tools You've Never Seen Before

Reuters | Patricia Reaney | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Assassination Umbrella, Kgb, Spy Exhibit, Spy, Cia, Reuters, Spy Slideshow, Spy Gear, Spies, Fbi, Declassified Spy Tools, Weird News News

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mysterious cloak and dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heros and vi...

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Ex-KGB Boss Wins Presidential Election In South Ossetia

AP | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Kgb, Russia, Alla Dzhioyeva, Video, Eduard Kokoity, Irina Gassiyeva, South Ossetia, Leonid Tibilov, World News

TBILISI, Georgia — A former KGB chief on Monday scored a victory in the runoff presidential election in Georgia's breakaway province of South Os...

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Forget the Film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: See the BBC Original

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Kgb, Cia, Gary Oldman, Moscow Center, John Le Carre, British Secret Intelligence Service -MI6, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Cold War, Alec Guinness, Colin Firth, Philby, Entertainment News

Writing about films is not something I often do, but as an old Cold Warrior who has covered intelligence matters for decades and been involved in a few, the thrilling book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is right up my dark alley.

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Oil Embargoes, Sherlock Holmes, and the Russian Butler

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Russia Oil, Russia Iran Sanctions, Energy, Russia, Kgb, Prime Minister Vladamir Putin, Cftc, Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, Oil Embargoes, Nytimes, Strait of Hormuz, Oil Speculation, Business News

The tumult and fabricated anxieties over Iran's oil supply give ample cover to an oil price veering ever higher -- prices explained away by the political tensions at hand. But the question needs to be asked -- what is really driving oil prices?

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A Case of Russian Sexpionage in Britain or Simply a Case of a Young Woman Preferring Older High Ranking Officials?

Haggai Carmon | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: mi5, Russian, Kgb, Katia-Zatuliveter, Russian Sleeper, Sex Scandal, Sex, British, Ekaterina Zatuliveter, Katia Zatuliveter, Russian Spy, Mike Hancock, World News

Ekaterina "Katia" Zatuliveter insists that she is not a Russian spy operating in the UK. MI5, the British internal intelligence service insists that she was working for Russian intelligence and wants her deported from the UK.

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WATCH: Belarusian KGB Vs. Social Media

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Kgb, Belarus Protests, Belarus, Belarus KGB, Minsk, Europe's Last Dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, Eastern Europe, Belarus Anti-Government Protests, World News

MINSK, Belarus (AP) – Belarusian authorities have detained more than 450 people for clapping their hands and stomping their feet in a series of anti...

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World's #9 Most Powerful Person Now Accused of Corruption -- Will She Fall?

Cleo Paskal | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Md Nalapat, Congress Party, Bofors, Kgb, Corruption, Sonia Gandhi, Commonwealth Games, Sten Lindstrom, Quattrocchi, Kapadia, Swiss Bank Accounts, India, Gandhi, 2g, Subramanian Swamy, Cleo Paskal, World News

While corruption cases in India have caught up some pretty big fish, if charges are laid against Sonia Gandhi, it won't just be part of a wave, it will be a sea change.

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Four Shots of Vodka

Lionel Beehner | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea, Kgb, Russia, Lenin, Vodka, Comedy News

The fall of 1991 I came down from the Urals, exhausted but also exhilarated from the alpine hike. I walked into a Russian village at the foothills. Upon seeing my visage, the villagers declared I was extremely ill.

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Lukashenko-Stalin

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lukashenko, Kgb, Belarus, Political Cartoon, Children, Stalin, Politics News

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Viktor And Marina Kalashnikov, Russian Dissident Journalists, Possibly 'Poisoned' In Germany

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kgb, Viktor Kalashnikov, Germany, Russians Poisoned, Moscow, Berlin, Alexander Litvinenko, Kremlin, Death, Poisoning, Mercury Poisoning, Marina Kalashnikov, World News

German authorities have launched an investigation into a possible poisoning attack against a Russian dissident couple living in Berlin, the BBC is rep...

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WikiLeaks Exposes More Than Documents

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, Wikileaks, Rick Stengel, Charles Krauthammer, Senator Frank Church, Pakistan, Joe Klein, Fair, Diane Sawyer, Iran-Contra Scandal, Reagan, Kgb, Iran, Representative Peter King, Salvador Allende, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Julian Assange, Mikheil Saakashvili, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Martha Raddatz, FoxNews.Com, Inter-Services Intelligence, Charlie Rose, Christian Whiton, Isi, Amy Goodman, Chile, Ahmed Zia Massoud, Daniel Ellsberg, Tass, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Time Magazine, Soviet Union, Assange, Oliver North, Massimo Calabresi, New York Times, Israel, ABC News, Eugene Hasenfus, North Korea, Media News

Rather than focus on the substance of the leaked diplomatic cables, American journalists tend to either frame the story as being about the "over-classification" of documents or the personal motivations and private life of Julian Assange.

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FBI Files: Solzhenitsyn Lived in Fear After Exile

NYCity News Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hoover Institute, Kgb, Stanford University, The Gulag Archipelago, Fbi, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, World News

Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived in fear of the KGB for years after his exile from the Soviet Union -- even as the FBI was secretly watching him, newly disclosed documents reveal.

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Farewell: A Mayor Koch Review

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guillaume Canet, Kgb, Emir Kusturica, Cia, Christian Carion, Thomas Farley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ronald Reagan, Aj Abucay, Spy Thriller, New York Insider Productions, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Entertainment News

This Belgian film (in French, with English subtitles) is quite good, though not nearly as good as my favorite spy thriller of all time. To see if you agree with that choice, watch my review below.

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Vladimir Putin Welcomes Russian Spies Back, Sings KGB Songs, Promises Rewards

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russian Spies, Vladimir Putin, Kgb, World News

FOROS, Ukraine — Vladimir Putin says he met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the United States, joining them in singing an unoffici...

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The Return of Russian Spies

Allen M. Hornblum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Invisible Harry Gold, Kgb, International Espionage, Allen M. Hornblum, Russian Spies, Books News

Harry Gold blended in so well that neighbors and co-workers... were dumbstruck when the FBI arrested their quiet, diminutive colleague in May 1950 for transferring the secrets of the Atomic Bomb to the KGB.

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Ex-Spy: There May Be 50 Undercover Russian Couples In US

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kgb, Spy, Russia, U.S, Espionage, Russia Spies, Oleg Gordievsky, Russian Spies, Russia Spy Ring, World News

MOSCOW — Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia's Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it ...

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Lieberman Strikes Again

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, Miranda Rights, Constitutional Rights, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, Kgb, Russia, Federal Security Service, Terrorism, Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shahzad, Politics News

Joe Lieberman can probably find something in the latest proposal from Russia that he'll be wanting to incorporate in the legislation he is about to introduce.

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Jon Stewart Author Interview: Eamon Javers On Corporate Espionage (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: mi5, Kgb, Cia, Corporate Espionage, Jon Stewart, Broker Trader Lawyer Spy, Author Interviews, Books, The Daily Show, Eamon Javers, Spies, Books News

Politico reporter Eamon Javers was on "The Daily Show" last night to talk about corporate espionage and his new book, "Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy." I...

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Russian Activist Uses Blog-Power to Beat FSB

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fsb, Russia, Harassment, Bloggers, Bureaucracy, Kgb, Media News

Thanks to bloggers' active support, we managed to defeat the seemingly unbeatable Russian Federal Security machine.

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A New Year's Resolution for France- Put Albert Camus In The Pantheon

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Pantheon, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Alexander Shelepin, Albert Camus, Nicholas Sarkozy, Kgb, Andrei Sakharov, Marcel Cerdan, Frank Wisner Jr., Frank Wisner, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Hillary Clinton, Encounter, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stalinism, World News

While the left snivels over the literary Camus, the compte rendu on the author is that of an individual who touched the world in an effort to promote the universal rights of man implicit in the French social contract.

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Shabattai Kalmanovich Dead: Former KGB Spy Killed In Moscow

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — A Russian businessman who had been convicted in Israel of being a KGB spy was shot dead in Moscow on Monday, police said. Shabattai Ka...

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'GQ' Buries Article Critical Of Russian President Vladimir Putin

NPR | David Folkenflik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kgb, Russia, Conde Nast, Scott Anderson, Media, Investigative Journalism, Censorship, Gq, Journalism, Media News

For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia ...

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Drug Wars: Brazil's Amazon The New Rio Grande

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Council on Foreign Relations, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Lula, Farc, Mexico, Dea, Obama, Brazil, Plan Colombia, Kgb, France Iran, Hip Hop, Colombia, Michele Bachelet, Alvaro Uribe, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Drug War, Celso Amorim, Cuba, Amazon, Sivam, World News

The last thing president Lula and Brazilian democracy need is the United States on its northern border using the drug war to interfere in internal politics like it has done in the past with Mexico.

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Russia: Police, Security Agents Have Right To Open Mail

AP | KARINA IOFFEE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kgb, Russia, Russian Police, Russia Security Agents, Russia Police to Open Mail, Russia KGB, Russia Postal Service, World News

MOSCOW — The Russian government has issued an order telling postal workers that police and security agents have a right to open mail, causing al...

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Was Izzy an Agent?

D. D. Guttenplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Kgb, Communism, I.F. Stone, Ron Radosh, Spies, National Security Agency, Cold War, Media News

I've always had a soft spot for Ron Radosh. This may seem surprising, particularly since Radosh just penned an attack on me, my I.F. Stone biography, ...

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