UmairOleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86
Oleg Gordievsky, who was the top K.G.B. agent in London until he defected to the West in 1985 and revealed himself as a longtime double agent for British intelligence —…
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Push to Shut Down Radio Free Europe
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s push to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally funded news organization that was born out of the American efforts…
Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air
Journalists from Radio Martí, the U.S. federally-funded news outlet aimed at communist Cuba, were in the middle of interviewing a Cuban activist in Miami on a recent Saturday when bleak…
Were the Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say.
In June 1973, a C.I.A. employee wrote a memo at the request of William E. Colby, the agency’s director, listing various ways the C.I.A. had, to put it delicately, “exceeded”…
Shielded Kennedy Files Hid Spies, Not Conspiracies
For years, as the government has declassified and published documents related — some very tenuously — to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the assumption expressed by conspiracy theorists…
