Face Off – A CIA Disguise in Action
CIA disguise artist Jonna Mendez removes an elaborate mask and wig, revealing her true identity to President George H. W. Bush in the Oval Office in the early 1990s. The moment…
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Russian Stagecraft: The Ryan Fogle Debacle
In May 2013, the Central Intelligence Agency suffered one of its most embarrassing fiascoes in recent memory. Not embarrassing in the sense that illegal or immoral activities were brought…
Poison Perfume: How the GRU Hunted Down a Defector in England
Introduction Glasnost and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 did nothing to slow down the operations of the Chamber, Russia’s assassination laboratory. If anything, their operations expanded…
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The Assassin Who Came In from the Cold
Introduction Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov was a Soviet war hero and capable MVD agent when he was selected for a dangerous mission outside of the USSR: find and kill a Russian…