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After the transition from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation, new discoveries were made about Soviet-era espionage. The Venona project, declassified in 1995 by the Moynihan Commission, contained extensive evidence of the activities of Soviet spy networks in America, [10] as did the Mitrokhin Archive revealed from 1992-1999. [11]
Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a former Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring.
Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001.
The Illegals Program (so named by the United States Department of Justice) was a network of Russian sleeper agents under unofficial cover.An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) culminated in the arrest of ten agents on June 27, 2010, and a prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States on July 9, 2010.
Russian intelligence no longer recruits people on the basis of Communist ideals, which was the "first pillar" of KGB recruitment, said analyst Konstantin Preobrazhenskiy. "The second pillar of recruitment is love for Russia. In the West, only Russian immigrants have feelings of filial obedience toward Russia.
Andrey Bezrukov (Russian: Андрей Безруков), often referred to by his cover name Donald Heathfield, and Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova (Russian: Елена Вавилова), often referred to by her cover name Tracey Foley, were former KGB sleeper agents in the United States.
People who have acted as spies for the Russian Federation or the Russian Empire. Spies for the Soviet Union should be placed in Category:Soviet spies . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spies from Russia .
In May 2024 the BBC aired a four-part spy documentary series called Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game, which examined Gordievsky's vital work for British Intelligence, stopping Operation Able Tracer, helping NATO build peaceful relationships with Mikhail Gorbachev, and Gordievsky's dramatic escape from the Russian/Finland border.