UK officials spent decades hiding how the VENONA project exposed Soviet agents in Australia to protect a cryptographic secret and shield high-level leaks from the public record.
By Vera Kessler ·
A high-ranking Australian official operated for the MGB between 1945 and 1948, using the United Nations as a shield before fleeing to Prague.
By Harlan Pryce ·
He used his wife's health as a pretext to flee to Prague while the Security Service tracked his ties to Soviet agents and the MGB.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A high-ranking diplomat spent years funneling secrets to Moscow before fleeing to Prague under a medical pretext; he remained under investigation until a 1954 defection exposed him.
By Vera Kessler ·
He used a UN post and a Rhodes scholarship to mask his work for Moscow, with a sudden 1950 move to Prague that stayed under active investigation for years.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A diplomat’s 1950 move to Prague hid a betrayal that remained under investigation until a Soviet defector identified him as a key agent for the MGB.
By Vera Kessler ·
A physicist's ties to the Communist Party and a tip from a Soviet defector kept him under British surveillance for a decade before he broke with Moscow in 1957.
By Harlan Pryce ·
An academic's journey from the UN Secretariat to Prague remained hidden in Security Service files as he allegedly traded state secrets for Soviet favor.
By Constance Bell ·
He lost his scholarship and faced intelligence scrutiny after a Soviet defector flagged him as a person of interest to the MGB.
By Harlan Pryce ·
His kinship with the MGB cost him an Oxford scholarship and placed him under the gaze of the Security Service, a record held in files tracking suspected communists.
By Constance Bell ·
A physicist’s Oxford scholarship was stripped for his Party ties before a Soviet defector linked him to the MGB, records kept by the Security Service show.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Security Service surveillance shadowed physicist Thomas Reeve Kaiser for years after Petrov linked him to Soviet intelligence operations.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Ian Frank George Milner deceived the Australian government as a key MGB agent for years before using a medical excuse to vanish into the Eastern Bloc.
By Harlan Pryce ·