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The death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams. Who was found dead, locked inside a bag in the bath. Police ruled the cause of death was suicide despite no fingerprints or DNA being found. A former KGB agent has since said he was killed by Russian hitmen after refusing to become a double agent.

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In 1997, four years before being arrested for spying for the KGB, Robert Hanssen was caught using a password cracker on a federal computer. When asked about this, he said that he was simply trying to install a color printer, and so he needed the administrator password. They believed him.

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1. The KGB spy assigned to George Orwell would later lose his faith in Communism, after reading Orwell's books

2. Ernest Hemingway was recruited as a spy for the KGB in 1941, code named "Argo", but he never provided any valuable information and was abandoned by the Soviets by the end of the 1940's.

3. Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy who was sent to work undercover in the USA. He quit his profession by lying to his handlers that he had AIDS. They cut him off as they were afraid of STDs spreading in the Soviet Union. Barsky never returned to Russia.

4. The East German secret police, the Stasi, had at least one spy watching every 66 citizens. For comparison, the KGB had one agent per 5,830 citizens, and the Gestapo had one officer for 2,000 people.

5. The poison tipped umbrella, a favorite murder weapon of spies, is called the “Bulgarian Umbrella” when the KGB first used it to kill a Bulgarian dissident in London

6. The KGB used "spy dust," the chemical compound NPPD, during the Cold War to track Americans in Moscow by applying an almost invisible powder to their clothing, cars, doorknobs and other objects. Some other variants of “spy dust” may have contained luminol and would glow under ultraviolet light.

7. KGB agent Vitaly Yurchenko defected to the United States in 1985, outed two CIA officers as Soviet spies, and defected back to the Soviet Union a few months later. It is unknown if his initial defection was genuine and he later changed his mind, or if he was a double agent the whole time.

8. In 1997, four years before being arrested for spying for the KGB, Robert Hanssen was caught using a password cracker on a federal computer. When asked about this, he said that he was simply trying to install a color printer, and so he needed the administrator password. They believed him.

9. I learned about British-born Harvard researcher Michael Hollingshead, who is believed to have introduced Tim Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Keith Richards, and 3 of the Beatles to LSD. He later dosed a KGB spy while in prison and eventually died under mysterious circumstances in Bolivia.

10. An Ex-KGB spy was sent to America for espionage during the Cold War and never went back to his homeland and started a family unnoticed for years.

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The co-writer of the Camp X Manual, field manual for CIA and MI6 spies, was a KGB double agent Kim Philby

The Hollow Nickel Case. A KGB team was discovered when one of them paid for a newspaper using a nickel that had been hollowed out to store microfilm. The spy who was arrested, tried, and convicted was eventually traded back to the USSR for spy plane pilot Gary Powers - source

The FBI wanted to spy on library records because they believed that librarians were secret KGB agents and libraries were secret KGB recruitment centres - source

The KGB secretly spied on visitors to the Hotel Viru in Estonia and a new museum reveals all the secrets within.

About the Cambridge Spies, British members of a KGB spy ring that passed vital British intelligence to the USSR during WWII and the early stages of the Cold War. - source

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Russian KGB spies like you see in "The Americans" TV show were trained in a special city that was a recreation of 1950s America town and that the ruins of it still exist in the Ukraine.

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A director of British counter-intelligence, and prospective chief of MI6 was a KGB spy.

After learning of KGB spying on him, NATO secretary general and former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg used his KGB-assigned codename as a gamertag in Age of Empires and CoC

The Cali cartel had connections with British mercenaries, countless spies and in the government and its vast intelligence and surveillance network the cartel was once renowned and compared to the Russian KGB by the American DEA, calling it "The most powerful crime syndicate in history"

Former American spy Charles McCarry (who just died) wrote a novel, Lucky Bastard, about a decades-long plan by the Soviet Union's KGB to underwrite the political career of a complete narcissist, and get him elected President of the United States, using shady finances and sexual blackmail

I learned 'The Twentieth Day of January' (1981), allegedly Trump's favourite spy novel, tells a story of a Republican outsider to politics brought to power by the KGB, which has compromising material on the candidate. This conspiracy is revealed by a British intelligence officer.