Tag: KGB
A KGB spy alongside General de Gaulle? Investigation into the Pierre Maillard affair – L’Express
Journalists, elected officials, advisors, diplomats… They all assiduously frequented the Elysée. Their other point in common? They were Kremlin spies. The KGB and its successors recruited these “moles” by banking…
KGB, Czech services… What intelligence knew about French spies – L’Express
The forgery from the Czech secret services still appears, in February 2024, in the archives of the Paris police headquarters. Proof that the French police officers have completely fallen into…
“Vladimir Putin was a mediocre KGB agent” – L’Express
How were the agents of the ancestor of the FSB, the Russian intelligence service, trained? The novelist Iegor Gran examines the question in The KGB job interview (Bayard). A funny…
The French and the KGB – L’Express’ summer series
The French and the KGB: Pierre Cot, minister and “agent of influence”? EPISODE 1 – Twenty-eight years ago, a commission of historians concluded that the Minister of the Popular Front…
Journalist Paul-Marie de La Gorce, KGB spy? Secret Service suspicions
France, nest of Russian spies? For nearly a century, Moscow secret service are active in France. To their credit, many recruits in the highest spheres of the State, most of…
The French and the KGB: Pierre Cot, minister and “agent of influence”?
France, nest of Russian spies? For nearly a century, Moscow secret service are active in France. To their credit, many recruits in the highest spheres of the State, most of…
Patriarch Kirill, close to Putin, KGB agent in Geneva in the 1970s
Patriarch Kirill, spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, worked for the Soviet intelligence services during the Cold War, according to two Swiss daily newspapers which had access to the…
Constantin Sigov: “After Putin, freeing Russian society from the KGB mafia will be very difficult”
Philosopher at war, Constantin Sigov fights with his weapons: words and writing. Last November, he published, with Laure Mandeville, “When Ukraine rises: the birth of a new Europe” (Talent editions).…
‘It’s the KGB method’: How Putin cracked down on Russian NGOs
“You will never accept today’s situation if it falls suddenly,” breathes Aglaé, a documentalist and member of Memorial. Since Putin came to power, the Russian NGO, Nobel Peace Prize in…
Poutine, Pécresse, Hanouna, French secret services: the secrets of a former KGB agent
In an instant, he sits up like a truffle dog that has just sniffed a mushroom. His gaze leaves us to snap at the sinister-looking forty-year-old who has just entered…