Featured in kgbBYTeam MightyMar 8, 2023ShareThe KGB double agent who prevented a nuclear World War IIIOleg Gordievsky started his KGB career fully indoctrinated in the Soviet system. His father was an operative of the NKVD,… BYTeam MightyMar 8, 2023ShareBYTeam MightySep 27, 2022ShareTOPHAT was the USA’s highest-ranking mole inside Soviet IntelligenceSometime in the late 1950s, a top officer and mole inside the Soviet Union’s military intelligence agency found himself disgusted… BYTeam MightySep 27, 2022ShareBYTeam MightySep 11, 2023ShareThis Russian-born FBI agent was the bureau’s spycatcherGeorge Tromiloff was a retired U.S. Army officer who had been passing information onto the Soviet KGB for decades. BYTeam MightySep 11, 2023ShareBYTeam MightyAug 10, 2023ShareThese are the 10 rules the CIA used for spying on the Soviet Union in MoscowCIA Officer Tony Mendez wrote three memoirs about his time in the agency, and listed ten unwritten rules officers and agents had to follow. BYTeam MightyAug 10, 2023ShareBYRuddy CanoAug 15, 2022ShareThis is how the FBI captured 3 KGB agents in 1978During the darkest years of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union played a nuclear game of cat and mouse. The finest agents this side of the Berlin Wall were pitted against KGB spies determined to steal our secrets. Distrus… BYRuddy CanoAug 15, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyJun 29, 2022ShareThe KGB’s Alpha Group left terrorists in fear of the Soviet UnionThe massacre of Israeli athletes by terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics was a wake-up call. Like many countries in… BYTeam MightyJun 29, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyJun 27, 2022ShareHow the KGB trained its ‘illegal’ sleeper agentsContrary to what some science fiction and superhero movies might have you believe, the KGB – the Soviet Union’s state… BYTeam MightyJun 27, 2022ShareBYTeam MightyMar 15, 2023ShareA Soviet and an American spy became best friends while trying to turn each otherSaying the Cold War was a very interesting time for the United States is like saying Adolf Hitler was “an… BYTeam MightyMar 15, 2023ShareBYBlake StilwellMar 8, 2023Share9 infamous KGB assassination attempts straight out of spy novelsIt’s well known that the fearsome Soviet spy agency, the KGB, used brutal tactics to eliminate and intimidate rivals. Legend has it that when Soviet diplomats were kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon in the mid-1980s, KGB officers kidna… BYBlake StilwellMar 8, 2023ShareBYTeam MightySep 13, 2021ShareThe real reason North Korea’s capture of the USS Pueblo was a disaster for the USIn January 1968 the USS Pueblo, a research ship being used by U.S. Navy intelligence, was captured off the coast… BYTeam MightySep 13, 2021ShareBYSandboxxAug 19, 2021ShareHow Russia spies: Active measures & subversion“The Main Enemy.” That’s how the Russian political, military, and intelligence apparatuses see the United States. Although the end of… BYSandboxxAug 19, 2021ShareBYShannon CorbeilJan 3, 2023ShareTop 10 most damaging spy missions in historyThe Espionage Act of 1917 defined espionage as the notion of obtaining or delivering information relating to national defense to a person who is not entitled to have it. The Act made espionage a crime punishable by death, but there are always men an… BYShannon CorbeilJan 3, 2023ShareBYRadio Free Europe Radio LibertySep 12, 2019ShareThe KGB tailed this Frenchman for 8 years, but was he a spy?Fifty-five years ago, on Sept. 11, 1963, a plane took off from Kyiv for Vienna. On board was Julien Galeotti, a French citizen accused of espionage and expelled from the Soviet Union. BYRadio Free Europe Radio LibertySep 12, 2019ShareBYBusiness InsiderSep 12, 2019ShareHow Vladimir Putin’s career went from the KGB to the KremlinVladimir Putin‘s KGB career may have ended decades ago, but that didn’t stop the Russian president from citing his spy credentials during BYBusiness InsiderSep 12, 2019ShareBYCentral Intelligence AgencyJan 28, 2019ShareHow the CIA recruited and handled its top KGB moleOn June 22, 1977, Aleksandr Ogorodnik killed himself with a CIA-supplied suicide pill after the KGB arrested him based on information initially provided by a mole within the Agency. Just over three weeks later, CIA officer Martha (Marti) Peterson ?… BYCentral Intelligence AgencyJan 28, 2019Share
BYTeam MightyMar 8, 2023ShareThe KGB double agent who prevented a nuclear World War IIIOleg Gordievsky started his KGB career fully indoctrinated in the Soviet system. His father was an operative of the NKVD,… BYTeam MightyMar 8, 2023Share
BYTeam MightySep 27, 2022ShareTOPHAT was the USA’s highest-ranking mole inside Soviet IntelligenceSometime in the late 1950s, a top officer and mole inside the Soviet Union’s military intelligence agency found himself disgusted… BYTeam MightySep 27, 2022Share
BYTeam MightySep 11, 2023ShareThis Russian-born FBI agent was the bureau’s spycatcherGeorge Tromiloff was a retired U.S. Army officer who had been passing information onto the Soviet KGB for decades. BYTeam MightySep 11, 2023Share
BYTeam MightyAug 10, 2023ShareThese are the 10 rules the CIA used for spying on the Soviet Union in MoscowCIA Officer Tony Mendez wrote three memoirs about his time in the agency, and listed ten unwritten rules officers and agents had to follow. BYTeam MightyAug 10, 2023Share
BYRuddy CanoAug 15, 2022ShareThis is how the FBI captured 3 KGB agents in 1978During the darkest years of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union played a nuclear game of cat and mouse. The finest agents this side of the Berlin Wall were pitted against KGB spies determined to steal our secrets. Distrus… BYRuddy CanoAug 15, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyJun 29, 2022ShareThe KGB’s Alpha Group left terrorists in fear of the Soviet UnionThe massacre of Israeli athletes by terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics was a wake-up call. Like many countries in… BYTeam MightyJun 29, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyJun 27, 2022ShareHow the KGB trained its ‘illegal’ sleeper agentsContrary to what some science fiction and superhero movies might have you believe, the KGB – the Soviet Union’s state… BYTeam MightyJun 27, 2022Share
BYTeam MightyMar 15, 2023ShareA Soviet and an American spy became best friends while trying to turn each otherSaying the Cold War was a very interesting time for the United States is like saying Adolf Hitler was “an… BYTeam MightyMar 15, 2023Share
BYBlake StilwellMar 8, 2023Share9 infamous KGB assassination attempts straight out of spy novelsIt’s well known that the fearsome Soviet spy agency, the KGB, used brutal tactics to eliminate and intimidate rivals. Legend has it that when Soviet diplomats were kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon in the mid-1980s, KGB officers kidna… BYBlake StilwellMar 8, 2023Share
BYTeam MightySep 13, 2021ShareThe real reason North Korea’s capture of the USS Pueblo was a disaster for the USIn January 1968 the USS Pueblo, a research ship being used by U.S. Navy intelligence, was captured off the coast… BYTeam MightySep 13, 2021Share
BYSandboxxAug 19, 2021ShareHow Russia spies: Active measures & subversion“The Main Enemy.” That’s how the Russian political, military, and intelligence apparatuses see the United States. Although the end of… BYSandboxxAug 19, 2021Share
BYShannon CorbeilJan 3, 2023ShareTop 10 most damaging spy missions in historyThe Espionage Act of 1917 defined espionage as the notion of obtaining or delivering information relating to national defense to a person who is not entitled to have it. The Act made espionage a crime punishable by death, but there are always men an… BYShannon CorbeilJan 3, 2023Share
BYRadio Free Europe Radio LibertySep 12, 2019ShareThe KGB tailed this Frenchman for 8 years, but was he a spy?Fifty-five years ago, on Sept. 11, 1963, a plane took off from Kyiv for Vienna. On board was Julien Galeotti, a French citizen accused of espionage and expelled from the Soviet Union. BYRadio Free Europe Radio LibertySep 12, 2019Share
BYBusiness InsiderSep 12, 2019ShareHow Vladimir Putin’s career went from the KGB to the KremlinVladimir Putin‘s KGB career may have ended decades ago, but that didn’t stop the Russian president from citing his spy credentials during BYBusiness InsiderSep 12, 2019Share
BYCentral Intelligence AgencyJan 28, 2019ShareHow the CIA recruited and handled its top KGB moleOn June 22, 1977, Aleksandr Ogorodnik killed himself with a CIA-supplied suicide pill after the KGB arrested him based on information initially provided by a mole within the Agency. Just over three weeks later, CIA officer Martha (Marti) Peterson ?… BYCentral Intelligence AgencyJan 28, 2019Share
