There’s a lot of good and a lot of bad in director Daniel Espinosa’s Soviet-era thriller “Child 44,” an adaptation of Tom Rob Smith’s bestselling novel that’s loaded with international talent and rich ...

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Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the National ...

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Mike Newell, director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, will write and direct a film based off the poisoning and mysterious death of former ...

MOSCOW — Promotional pushes may change at the last moment for all sorts of reasons, but Russia has just seen an unusual one. Alexander Atanesyan’s highprofile “Scum” has had to contend with an unusual ...

The Soviet's main security agency, the KGB, may have broken up in 1991, but experts say its successor - the Federal Security Service or FSB - is as active now as it ever was. From the more recent spy ...

The hidden Nazi and intelligence careers of Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the UN 2 terms, '72-'82, president of Austria, '86-'92, all the while a top KGB agent. He was recruited by the KGB in ...

The Coen brothers are to write the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller starring Tom Hanks. It was recently revealed that the Oscar-winning director and actor - whose previous ...

The KGB was said to have targeted the film star Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual (PA) Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, ...