KGB
KGB – Komitéen for Statssikkerhed – var Sovjetunionens øverste sikkerheds- og efterretningsorgan fra 1954 til 1991. Organisationen opererede internationalt og stod bag rekruttering af udenlandske spioner under Den Kolde Krig.
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Kim Philby: The British Spy Who Sold Secrets to Moscow
Kim Philby, a senior British intelligence officer, spent decades as a Soviet double agent before defecting to Moscow in 1963. His espionage betrayed countless agents across Eastern Europe and fundamentally damaged trust between MI6 and the CIA.
John Walker Jr.: The Navy's Greatest Betrayal
In October 1967, Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker Jr. drove to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, in his red sports car and offered classified US Navy documents to Soviet security personnel. What began as a single act of espionage would become the worst security breach in US naval history.
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John Walker Jr.: The Navy's Greatest Betrayal
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