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30 Jun 2011, 6:07 am
Apparently the difference between the KGB and the FBI is that the FBI has to go through a judicial rubberstamp and didn't have to bother with the extra paperwork of the national security letters. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 8:53 am by Federal and Extradition Defense
According to the The Moscow News October 13, 2010 " Lugovoi sent a sharp warning that further calls for his extradition to stand trial for the 2006 murder over KGB agent turned UK citizen Alexander Litvinenko would only sour relations as British foreign secretary William Hague visited Russia. [read post]
13 Jan 2019, 7:00 am by Seth G. Jones
The group tentatively agreed to direct the KGB to remove Amin and replace him with the Babrak Karmal. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 4:18 pm by Alex Finley, Jonna Mendez, David Priess
U.S. intelligence has a long and distinguished record of working against oddly similar foes in oppressive environments—most notably, the Soviet Union’s KGB on the streets of Moscow. [read post]
22 Jul 2018, 2:11 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Petersburg, where Putin grew up, studied, first joined the KGB, and became deputy mayor; in Moscow, where Putin moved in 1996 and began his ascent toward the presidency; and in Dresden, in the former East Germany, where Putin was posted by the KGB in the 1980s. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 8:31 pm
One of the reporters was briefly detained by officers from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) — the successor to the KGB — without explanation, according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 5:06 pm by Christopher Bird
Curnew appealed on the basis of an improperly admitted KGB statement and ineffective counsel.The argued-to-be-improperly-admitted KGB statement was a videotaped statement from the complainant which she later retracted, claiming she was mad at Mr. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 4:06 am
Clinton’s blood".... adding that his reasoning is that he does not trust Russian President Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee who has expressed admiration for Putin.Putin, as The Washington Post reported, was implicated by a British inquiry in January in the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB operative, in London in 2006....The article presents Omalu's idea as if it's another conspiracy theory, but I assume that… [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 1:33 pm by Tracy Rosenberg
During my guided tour of the SWAT practices, I was escorted by armed sheriff personnel and driven about in a sheriff SUV, much as the KGB-guided tours of the Kremlin during the days of the Soviet Union were described to me as a child. [read post]
1 May 2016, 8:05 am by Ilya Somin
The frontrunner for the presidential nomination in one major party has praised the authoritarian leadership of of ex-KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin and and the “strength” displayed by the Chinese communists when they massacred thousands of students at Tiananmen Square. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 1:28 pm by Anushka Limaye
“The Apprentice”, a new book by Post reporter Greg Miller, will be released October 2, 2018, and seeks to provide insight into President Donald Trump’s conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and how Putin’s expertise as a KGB officer colors conversations between him and President Trump, reports the Post. [read post]
15 Dec 2013, 9:41 am
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now know that the US government has since 2001 been doing an really good job acting like the KGB of 1955. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 7:44 pm
From the mailbox: The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945                      Special Issue Call for EssaysInternational Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact When former head of the MI5 Stella Rimington compared literary critics to the KGB, she might have extended the analogy to include the cultures, histories, and theories of espionage. [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 7:11 am
KGB analysts confirmed decades later that when Reagan fired the controllers, they wrote papers explaining why Reagan was unlike his predecessors in doing exactly what he said he was going to do. [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 4:02 pm by Lovechilde
  As one clever tweet put it, this is the first time in history that the FBI, KGB and KKK all supported the same candidate.As far as we know various national security agencies have been investigating Russia's actions and Trump's Russian ties although nothing will come of this before the election. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 5:55 am by Douglas London
In 1980, the CIA exfiltrated KGB Major Victor Sheymov and his family in a daring operation in the heart of Moscow. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 8:44 am by Alina Polyakova
Recall that during the Cold War, the KGB infiltrated environmental, civil rights, peace, and religious organizations. [read post]
One of the articles that brought Mozheyko to the attention of Belarusian authorities dealt with the killing of a Russian KGB agent. [read post]