October 30, 1927 - August 23, 2008
… Nosenko joined the KGB’s Second Chief Directorate in 1953 and was responsible for the surveillance and recruitment of foreigners in Moscow. In the 1960s he offered to provide the West with details of Soviet penetration agents and, later, information about the KGB connection with Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy. …
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who had been fighting for his life in recent days after an apparent poisoning, has died, the London hospital where he was being treated said today. … Read full story
Helene Deschamps Adams, a hero of the French Resistance who saved American fliers from capture and Jews from execution by the Nazis, and played a role in secret preparations for Allied invasions of France, died in Manhattan Saturday of heart failure. … Read full obituary
Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British historian who wrote a best-selling account of Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker but damaged his reputation 35 years later by authenticating forged Hitler diaries, died yesterday in Oxford, England. He was 89. … Read full obituary
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