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John Bolton Says Russia's President Using 'KGB Training' To Exploit Trump: 'Good Personal Rapport' Won't Protect You From The Worst

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to exploit Trump and that U.S. policy has pushed India's prime minister closer to Moscow and Beijing.

Benzinga

50 Of The World’s Greatest Mysteries That Remain Unsolved To This Day

What unsolved mystery continues to boggle your mind?

Bored Panda

NCAA Hammers Michigan, Making Jim Harbaugh Most-Penalized Cheater in Sport’s History

The former coach received a 10-year show-cause penalty for his role in the Connor Stalions sign-stealing saga, tainting his and the Wolverines’ reputations.

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Trump, Putin leave Alaska summit with no deal on ending Ukraine conflict - Roll Call

Trump and Putin met for three hours in Alaska, but did not announce a deal on possibly ending the Ukraine war.

Roll Call

'25 percent chance': Trump team ratchets up, down goals for Putin summit - Roll Call

President Trump and aides have raised and lowered expectations for his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin, making the meeting hard to grade.

Roll Call

Voices: When Trump and Putin go head to head in Alaska, who wins?

COMMENT: Friday’s summit in Alaska between the two leaders to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine will show that it is the cunning former KGB officer who understands the art of the deal, says Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

Derk Sauer obituary

Media proprietor and founder of the Moscow Times who championed independent journalism in his adopted home country of Russia

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'Trump is falling for Putin's flattery'- Russian opposition activist, Kara-Murza

Russian opposition activist and former political prisoner, Vladimir Kara Murza says Western leaders’ treatment of Putin in the past was "shocking and shameful", and gave Putin leeway and erode democracy in Russia.

Euronews

Friday essay: ‘nothing quite like it in the history of espionage’ – the Russian spies who pretended to be American

In the thrilling finale of the TV series The Americans, set during the Reagan administration, deep-cover KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are faced with a difficult decision. Posing as an ordinary American married couple, for decades they have raised children, filed tax returns and slipped effortlessly into the rhythms…

The Conversation

From a rectal kit to a Berlin Wall-era transmitter: the artefacts of Australia’s spy museum which doesn’t exist – yet

More than a dozen intelligence services are represented in Mike Pritchard’s collection of spy gadgets. He wants to bring them to the world

The Guardian - AU

KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations

The Guardian - UK

Wagner Group UK proxy instructed to use Cold War drama as a ‘manual’

Dylan Earl has admitted orchestrating an arson attack on a warehouse and plotting to burn down businesses and kidnap their Russian dissident owner.

Evening Standard

26 CIA Spy Tools So Ridiculous, People Thought They Were Movie Props

Some of the gadgets used by the CIA have been declassified. Here they are.

Bored Panda

31 Examples Of CIA Spy Technology That Prove Human Ingenuity Knows No Boundaries

Some of the gadgets used by the CIA have been declassified. Here they are.

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The Guardian - UK

In 1990, my mother fought for Romania’s freedom. Will the revolution’s children do the same?

Sunday’s election could threaten the country’s place in Europe if Russia’s dark arts and historical amnesia win the day, says Romanian-born writer Larisa Faber

Evening Standard

The Comedy About Spies at Noel Coward Theatre review: bungling, buffoonish hilarity

4/5 Finally, Mischief may have found a match for their smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong

The Guardian - UK

‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB

The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning

Al Jazeera

Vladimir Putin: After 25 years in power, what next for Russia’s president?

From chasing rats as a child to the KGB, how 72-year-old Putin came to power – and what drives him now.

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The Guardian - UK

The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – gripping true stories of spies who lived deep undercover

An eye-opening account of the old Soviet tactic of embedding secret agents where you’d least expect them

Euronews

NATO must show strength, but only US can halt Putin, Duda says

In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Polish President Andrzej Duda stressed that deterrence, not fear, is NATO's best defence strategy.

The Guardian - UK

The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight

The strange stories of the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes make compelling reading

The Guardian - UK

Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: a KGB ‘illegal’ tells all, a cold case half-solved, and ‘the Citizen Kane of rock movies’

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Independent UK

CIA file about aliens attacking Soviet forces goes viral

Red Army soldiers were allegedly turned into limestone pillars by extraterrestrials in revenge for shooting down their spacecraft over Siberia, according to a declassified document

The Guardian - UK

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

The long read: For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story

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