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22 hours ago · He was a Soviet agent, ... Soon after Krivitsky defected, Philby's own handler, the sinister Alexander Orlov ... A Soviet defector revealed what so many had suspected for so long: ...
1 day ago · From the accounts of former OGPU officer Alexander Orlov and others, the methods used to extract the confessions are known: such tortures as repeated beatings, simulated drownings, making prisoners stand or go without sleep for days on end, and threats to arrest and execute the prisoners' families.
Jun 25, 2024 · This is an incomplete list of Western Bloc intelligence agents, military personnel, scientists, politicians, diplomats, and other prominent people who defected to Eastern Bloc or non-aligned countries during the Cold War and after.
6 days ago · Soviet dissidents who criticized the state in most cases faced legal sanctions under the Soviet Criminal Code and the choice between exile abroad (with revocation of their Soviet citizenship), the mental hospital, or the labor camp.
'The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes' (American cover for the sensational anti-Communist book by Soviet defector Alexander Orlov/ Random House. Preceded by four excerpts in LIFE Magazine. United States of America, 1953).
Jun 25, 2024 · The article tells about the employee of the Soviet foreign intelligence service Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov, who was forced to flee to America with his family in 1938. A brief outline of his life and work is given.
Jun 29, 2024 · The primary source of information about the Able Archer war scare is a Soviet defector, Oleg Gordievsky, who worked as a KGB agent in London for years before switching sides. Gordievsky was interviewed by the CIA and informed Reagan that Able Archer almost triggered a Soviet nuclear response.
