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There is no publicly verifiable evidence that Donald Trump was an actively recruited KGB/FSB agent codenamed “Krasnov”; allegations rest on testimony from former Soviet-era intelligence officers and i...
The claim that Donald Trump was recruited by Soviet/Russian intelligence in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov” originated with a February 2025 social‑media post by former Soviet/Kazakh security off...
The items long described as Adolf Hitler’s dental remains (a lower jaw with teeth) and a skull fragment with a bullet hole are held in Russian archives: the jaw in the FSB (successor to the KGB) archi...
Russia is actively recruiting non-Russians—both by law and by practice—through new decrees, targeted online campaigns, and expanded enlistment pathways that reach foreigners, prisoners and migrant com...
The Obama administration’s December 29, 2016 actions combined new cyber-focused sanctions, designation of specific Russian intelligence services and officers, asset-and-travel authorities via an amend...
Multiple contemporaneous eyewitnesses from Hitler’s inner circle and bunker staff described that Adolf Hitler’s and Eva Braun’s bodies were carried up from the bunker into the Reich Chancellery garden...
is not still alive; overwhelming contemporary testimony, multiple forensic studies of dental remains, archived reports, and later DNA/odontological confirmations converge on his suicide in the Führerb...
Craig Unger’s American Kompromat presents a narrative built largely on interviews with former KGB officer Yuri Shvets and other defectors, alleging that Soviet/Russian intelligence identified, courted...
Documented Russian designs of “silent” revolvers exist from World War II through the late Soviet and Russian eras—examples include the Gurevich experimental revolver , the Nagant M1895’s gas-seal syst...
There is documented reporting that Soviet (and later Russian) authorities preserved fragments and dental remains alleged to be from Adolf Hitler — including a skull fragment and jaw/dental matter — an...
The ’s recent public tranche of “ files” contains thousands of references to and across emails, images and other materials, but the released reporting shows those references are broad — names, travel ...
The publicly released and recent reporting have revealed numerous references to n individuals, repeated mentions of , and at least one identified Russian associate — — prompting to open a probe into p...
has published millions of pages of -related records, but the material released and official DOJ statements do not provide verified evidence that for a ; what exists in the public files are a mix of co...
’s documented interactions with figures tied to appear in public records and reporting beginning at least by the late 2000s and grow more visible in the 2010s; specific episodes tied to are reported a...
agencies — most visibly the and the — examined ’s -related contacts and trafficking networks, and the public record shows they monitored ties to but have not produced declassified, conclusive proof th...
Intelligence agencies and allied investigations have publicly presented a range of evidence showing that n services recruit and use foreign assets to —from long‑term “illegal” deep‑cover officers and ...
The preponderance of independent reporting and international investigations attributes systematic human rights abuses in Crimea since 2014 to Russian occupying authorities and allied pro‑Russian actor...
Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine and corporate security director, was arrested in Moscow on 28 December 2018; his family and he said he was in the city to attend the wedding of a fellow former Marine...
Russian services seeking compromising material on a U.S. president would draw on a range of well-documented espionage tools: human-targeting methods such as honeytraps, theft of devices or property, a...