The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody
On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative.
Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle
In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.
From Lithuania, With Love
In February 2015, a cryptic email reached correspondent Ann Cooper from around the globe and across 28 years. It would pull her back into one of the most extraordinary reporting jobs in her career.
Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend
Returning to Forth Worth after two and a half defection years in the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald became friends with a Russian emigre family with a son of his age. After Kennedy was shot, they would be called on to translate the Secret Service interrogation of his young Russian wife.
The Real Cuban Missile Crisis
A reassessment of the calm, cool JFK.
Requiem for a Russian Spy
A CIA veteran remembers his Soviet nemesis, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, who was the chairman of the KGB for a single day during the 1991 coup against Gorbachev, and committed suicide in Moscow in March.
