In April 1977, the Soviet Northern Fleet launched a massive naval drill—a full display of Cold War might—but they were being watched. Deep beneath the ice, the British nuclear submarine HMS Swiftsure ...

Frederick Flott, who died in 2006, was a longtime State Department diplomat around the world, as well as a CIA agent who ...

Her tenure included participation in the 1985 extraction of KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky from the Soviet Union ...

The long-anticipated third season of Netflix’s The Crown opens on the eve of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s election following 13 years of conservative rule in Britain. It’s 1964, and the air ...

Baroness Meta Ramsay, a "trailblazer" and "proper spy" once tipped to lead MI6, has died. Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Moore ...

A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results.

​​Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby were members of a Soviet spy ring that penetrated the BBC, the intelligence services and the Foreign Office and forwarded highly sensitive information to ...

Twice a week, Anton Kelsen sidled into a pew at his local pub and ordered the quiche with a double Bruichladdich single malt.