In 1983 the KGB recruited Mahmoud Abbas, ... which resides at the Churchill Archives Center at the University of Cambridge and has furnished two important volumes on the Cold War, ...

The documents, obtained by CNN from the Mitrokhin Archive at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, say that Abbas, who completed graduate work in Moscow in 1982, was a KGB agent while ...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas at the U.N. headquarters, New York, September 30, 2015. Abbas reportedly acted as an agent for the Russian KGB intelligence service in the 1980s, according to ...

Secret files from the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge University unveil real KGB spies. SECRET papers hidden in a milk churn for 20 years reveal what KGB spies were really like as they ...

Thousands of KGB files from the Mitrokhin Archive that raised a storm in India in 2005 and offered a rare peek into the erstwhile Soviet Union’s intelligence system will be opened to the public ...

The BBC has been accused of airing "KGB propaganda" after the writer of its forthcoming drama about the Cambridge University spy ring admitted that he had invented several key scenes. Peter Moffat ...

Members of the Cambridge Five spy ring were regarded by their Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks who were incapable of keeping secrets, newly-released files suggest.

The newly released papers include a list of KGB agents in America over several decades. It runs to 40 pages and about 1,000 names. One of the most notorious was code-named "Dan." ...

There is an old joke that there may have been a group of Soviet spies at Oxford like the five Cambridge Spies, but unlike those from Cambridge, the spies from Oxford simply did not get caught. MI5 ...

Members of the Cambridge Five spy ring were regarded by their Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks who were incapable of keeping secrets, newly-released files suggest.

At present, then, it is impossible to say whether there was a successful Soviet spy network in Oxford like there was in Cambridge. We know the KGB attempted to establish one at Oxford, but not whether ...