Declassified documents confirm that the late Queen Elizabeth II of England was not informed until many years later that she ...

Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally ...

Anthony Blunt, a royal art historial, confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviets, but the late queen was not officially told ...

Newly declassified files reveal the late Queen's very unexpected reaction to the art historian's shocking secret.

Art historian Anthony Blunt was for decades Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, overseeing the official Royal Art Collection, ...

That strong leader was a political unknown: a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin ... “Politics is the art of compromise. We have always said that we are ready for both negotiations and ...

The Federal Security Service, a top KGB successor known under its Russian ... Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Investigation(3/5). The archives of KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin challenge the notion that French intelligence services were never infiltrated during the Cold War: Throughout the 1950s ...

During the Cold War, the KGB gave Le Monde the code name "Vestnik" ("messenger" in Russian), but the newspaper was also simply referred to as "Monde" in exchanges with Moscow headquarters ...

It is no secret that Freeland was under surveillance and even intimidated by the KGB — the Soviet Union’s secret police — while in Ukraine as an exchange student from Harvard University in ...

A non-Communist Party member permitted to whisper subversive comments in return for quietly cooperating with the KGB against really awkward customers, Sobchak was in a position to present himself ...