Pens that shoot, cameras in matchboxes, poison-tipped umbrellas—the Cold War wasn’t just fought with words. These were the real gadgets of spies in the shadows.

For decades KGB and CIA agents plied their secret trade from opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. Last night in Dunlop Auditorium, a panel of former agents from both spy agencies came together to ...

The long-awaited release of tens of thousands of files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has sparked a desperate search for new clues in the shocking crime more than 60 years on.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin said in remarks published on Sunday that he had spoken to the director ...

KGB officer Yuri Nosenko, who said he was Lee Harvey Oswald's handler, insisted the Soviet Union did not send Oswald to kill JFK. The CIA believed him. But a book by Nosenko's CIA handler says ...

KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko (left) and the CIA's Jack Platt. In the summer of 1992, Jack Platt, an American, and his Russian best friend, Gennady “Genya” Vasilenko, saw each other for the ...

As the Cold War drew to a close with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, those at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, finally hoped to resolve many long-standing puzzles.

Adolf Tolkachev remains the source of the most catastrophic military aviation leaks in all of Russian history. Working for the CIA in 1979-1985, he’d managed to pass on so much he’d even given ...

When CIA officers walk out of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, they're shadowed by Russian security. A new book examines how they have operated with this round-the-clock surveillance.

Years after defecting from Russia and resettling in the US, former KGB officer Alexander Zaporozhsky was lured back to the country he had once betrayed. The CIA warned him not to go. Several ...

KGB spies Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) target a CIA agent beset with marital and financial problems on “Open House,” Episode 303 of “The Americans” on FX.