WHEN British intelligence operative Sidney Reilly tried to overthrow the Bolsheviks he didn’t count on their secret police being so effective. One early conspiracy was a British Secret Intelligence ...

WASHINGTON — In November 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka, had a plan. Four years earlier, the Bolsheviks had expelled the Romanov dynasty and ...

Russia celebrated a grim centenary this week. On December 20, 1917, the newborn Bolshevik dictatorship established its secret police force to crush opposition. It received the wordy title of the ...

One early conspiracy was a British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) plot to kill Russian leader Vladimir Lenin and stage a coup using disaffected elite Red Guard troops and counter-revolutionary ...