Mal Warwick·Nov 4The Russian double agent who foiled the Soviet takeover of IranWhen we read history, we tend to compartmentalize. For example, Americans may read about the Red Scare of the McCarthy era and lose sight…
Ingroup chatbyAlex Kravchenko·Oct 29The Party’s Gold: A Narrative HistoryPart One: Two Men, One Confusion
Ingroup chatbyAlex Kravchenko·Oct 29“You Are Leaving the American Sector”: Fake Borders, Fake Insurgents, and the KGB’s Master of…Part One: The Fake Border and the Theater of Betrayal
Swastik·Oct 20KGB Influence in India: The Failures of the Indian Intelligence Bureau and the Nehru and Indira…My commentary on the book Mitrokhin Archive II: The World Was Going Our Way, written by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.
Storyverse Recaps·Sep 26The Umbrella That Killed a Man in Four DaysLondon, 1978. A tiny pellet, a stranger with an umbrella, and one of the Cold War’s most mysterious assassinations.
Alex Kravchenko·Sep 14The Debt Without a SignatureImagine a room where the same argument has been raging for years. Someone throws it on the table: “Trump is a senior Kremlin agent.” Others…A response icon1A response icon1
InILLUMINATIONbyTENMEI·Sep 11Tuesday | A Question from Life Philosopher Tenmei | Social Structure Series | The Head of the…He caught Soviet agent after agent — but they were pawns the KGB fed him to raise his rank. He leaked ~15,000 secret documents over a…
Alex Kravchenko·Sep 6WITHOUT A TRACEThis story doesn’t start with a gunshot or an interrogation. It starts with a book that shouldn’t have existed, and a man who was supposed…
Mal Warwick·Aug 12Vladimir Putin’s career began in the KGB . . . and it showsEvery once in a while I’m shocked to learn anew that the American news media has missed the mark in its reporting of events around the…
Alex Kravchenko·Aug 5Operation “Prophet”: The KGB’s Hunt for NATO’s Doomsday ProtocolHow a Soviet Counterintelligence Officer Hunted a Ghost That Nearly Started World War III
