During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... such as Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Opponents to the Soviets were arrested and many elections were rigged.

Gordievsky passed away on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police confirmed Saturday that his death is not being treated as suspicious ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...