The KGB Prison Cells (Estonian: KGB Vangikongid) are former prison cells which were used by the KGB in Tallinn, Estonia. The building, known as Pagari...

The KGB Prison at Leistikowstraße 1 in the German city of Potsdam was a detention centre run by the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation, SMERSH. The...

victims of the KGB have been set up in several countries that were formerly occupied by the Soviet Union, often in former KGB prisons, to document the...

were evacuated to other prisons. The Security Service (MI5) was based at Wormwood Scrubs from 1939 to 1940. On 22 October 1966 KGB double-agent George Blake...

Butyrskaya prison (Russian: Бутырская тюрьма, romanized: Butýrskaya tyurmá), usually known simply as Butyrka (Russian: Бутырка, IPA: [bʊˈtɨrkə]), is a prison in...

The function of the Stasi in East Germany (the GDR) resembled that of the KGB in the Soviet Union,⁠ in that it served to maintain state authority and the...

to their cells. Those taken to the smaller cells were shackled to the walls or the concrete floor. Those who were held in the large mass cells were collectively...

Driaučiūnaitė notes that the former KGB internal prison was designed to torture people. Pointing out the single-celling without beds, an execution chamber...

the Russians. Hanssen sold about six thousand classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in...

Dieppe Cell; the Louis Riel Cell; the Nelson Cell; the Saint-Denis Cell; the Liberation Cell; and the Chénier Cell. The last two of these cells were involved...

Howells House. ISBN 0929590082. Retrieved January 3, 2024. Museum of KGB Cells Antoniuse Õue verine punaminevik 58°22′24″N 26°43′11″E / 58.3733°N 26...

agent to sell the top secret KH-11 manual. He was given $3,000 by a Soviet KGB agent named Michael, given a camera, and instructions to gather and bring...

in a Lubyanka Building prison cell. After completion, Solzhenitsyn's original handwritten script was kept hidden from the KGB in Estonia by Arnold Susi's...

political terrorists of his era, protected and supported by the Stasi and the KGB. After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez led the 1975 raid on the...

front enterprises, investigate cases, and run its own prison system. The Soviet Union had one KGB officer for every 428 citizens. Putin’s Russia has one...

term in prison. 1978: Expanded into the Central Investigation Institute for Special Technology within the First Chief Directorate of the KGB. Since 1991:...

bullet" to destroy targeted cells. Because ricin is a protein, it can be linked to a monoclonal antibody to target cancerous cells recognized by the antibody...

was to recruit Soviet officers as double agents. But he also informed his KGB contacts of the details of British and American operations, including Operation...

the opportunity to "transcribe thousands of documents, smuggle them out of KGB premises", etc. Former Indian counter-terrorism chief Bahukutumbi Raman also...

Belarusian secret police, the KGB… Taylor, Jerome (March 14, 2011). "Presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevic flees Belarus following KGB torture". The Independent...

was spread to the population at large. At the end of the Cold War, former KGB agents Vasili Mitrokhin and Oleg Gordievsky independently revealed that the...

and some of the prison's doctors that the physical and psychological state of the prisoners held in solitary confinement and white cells was such that they...

contractor in Redondo Beach, California and sent them on with Daulton to the KGB in Mexico City. I was able to obtain those documents through my position...

access to secret KGB archives. In March 1992 he published materials alleging cooperation between the Moscow Patriarchate and the KGB. He published code...

itself into multiple "cells" that appeared to operate independently yet reported to a celeno ("manager"). The independent clandestine cell system is what set...

has been called a political prisoner. Trepashkin started working for the KGB in 1984 as an investigator of underground trade in stolen art. At the beginning...

information about some spies. Transcription of declassified Soviet KGB documents by ex-KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev provides additional details about Soviet...

of the defenders of the Supreme Soviet to the isolation cells at the infamous Lefortovo Prison. On 19 July 1995, President Yeltsin promoted Barsukov to...

Museums have been created from many former jails and prisons. Some old jails converted into museums are listed under the original name of the jail, especially...

as they join the upper middle class. In fact, both were recruited by the KGB to collect information for the organization, but that was a decade ago. Since...