5 Months, 48 Games, No Winner: A Chess Battle Under Spy Agency KGB's Shadow
The 1984-85 World Chess Championship between defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov was abandoned ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
Paisley exposed: Greatest KGB Cold War mole inside the CIA
I exposed John Arthur Paisley — a senior CIA manager of analysis who should be considered the greatest mole of the Cold War ...
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
The KGB crackdown that followed was part of the ... charting their paths not only in the Soviet Union but abroad as well. The story of this later phase of dissident activity is one of ...
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Is Russia the Hidden Architect of Middle Eastern Chaos?
The Soviet Union’s KGB played a pivotal role in shaping the modern Palestinian national identity and aligning it with anti-Western objectives. According to former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin ...
US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin
Such a solution would conjure a cruel historical irony. Putin, who watched in despair from his post as a KGB officer in ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
“‘KGB agent’ is a hard definition – that ... and into sports in general. “(In the Soviet Union) they were using sports and chess which, of course, is considered a sport in Russia and ...