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The Capture and Execution of Colonel Penkovsky

5 March 2010

CIA, 5 March 2010: On the afternoon of October 22, 1962, a nondescript man was suddenly seized off the streets of Moscow by the KGB. He had been under surveillance on suspicion of treason. Thus ended Oleg Penkovsky’s career of spying for the United States and Great Britain. Penkovsky is considered one of the most [...]

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Sorge’s Spy is Brought in From the Cold. A Soviet-Okinawan Connection

8 February 2010

Japan Focus, 7 Feb 10: The Sorge espionage case concerns one of the most spectacular instances of clandestine influence in the history of international relations.
In the mid-1930s, the former Soviet Union enlisted the German national, Dr. Richard Sorge and four others in Tokyo, secretly to collect information on the likely policies of the Japanese government [...]

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Ukraine Expels Four Russians For Spying

2 February 2010

RFE/RL, 2 Feb 10: Ukraine has expelled four Russians for spying and detained another on espionage charges, the head of Ukraine’s main intelligence service said. Spy chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko said the Russians had been caught in southern Ukraine trying to obtain military secrets.
“Ukraine’s security services intercepted a Russian intelligence operation on January 27 in the [...]

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Russia’s Special Services Did Not Have a Good Year — Except in Covering Their Tracks, Soldatov Says

5 January 2010

Georgian Daily/Paul Goble, 5 Jan 10: Russia’s intelligence and security services did not have a good year in 2009, according to Moscow’s leading independence specialist on their activities.
Indeed, so great were their failures that the FSB chief even dropped what had become a post-Soviet tradition: the annual report to the media of his organization’s [...]

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Germany drops charges against Dmitri Kovtun over Litvinenko poisoning

13 November 2009

Times of London:  Germany has dropped attempts to prosecute one of the Russians accused of involvement in the assassination of the Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
In a blow to Britain’s efforts to extradite the former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoy to stand trial for murder, German prosecutors closed their case against his business partner Dmitri Kovtun.
Mr Kovtun, [...]

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