Chairman of the KGB Yuri Andropov. RIANbot / Wikicommons This Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Soviet leader Yury Andropov — KGB chief, scourge of dissidents, would-be reformer and ...

In June 1999, Vladimir Putin laid a bouquet of flowers on Yury Andropov's grave to mark the 85th anniversary of the late Soviet leader and longtime KGB chief's birth. Shortly after he became Russia's ...

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan famously called the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Child's play so far. We may be more partisan than at any time since the Civil War, but silly season has always ...

A new book written by the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer ever to defect to the West claims that a secret 1970s-era KGB plot is the cause for much of the Islamic anger directed ...

Adolf Hitler has no grave. Fearing that his burial site could become a sacred site to fascists, Soviet KGB agents dug up his bones in 1970, burnt them, ground them to ashes, and threw them into a ...

Vladimir Kryuchkov, 83, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, died Nov. 23 in Moscow, Russian government officials announced yesterday. The cause ...