KGB

Cyanide-filled fake teeth and cigarette packs with mini cameras are among KGB gadgets up for auction

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Cyanide-filled fake teeth and cigarette packs concealing cameras are among the hundreds of Soviet spy gadgets going under the hammer at a Beverly Hills auction this week. Many retro espionage devices in the sale by US-based Julien’s Auctions – known for Hollywood and pop culture memorabilia – would not be out of place in a … Read more

As KGB agent George Blake dies, a plea from a man who heard the stories of those he betrayed 

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At the weekend, as I read sentimental tributes paid to the MI6-agent-turned-Soviet-spy George Blake after his death on Boxing Day at the age of 98, my thoughts turned to his victims, people like Mr Koppel One day in 2010, I travelled to Wokingham in Berkshire to visit a retired lathe operator called Alexander Koppel.  He lived … Read more

Historian Ben Macintyre reveals the gripping story of the KGB agent who saved us from Armageddon

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We’re walking through a park in London where a Soviet spy once carried out a secret drop – just before he saved the world. ‘Most people have no idea how close we were to nuclear war at that time,’ says Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy And The Traitor, which tells the extraordinary true story … Read more