Quote by Cliff Kincaid

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

— Vladimir Putin

Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of course, the…

— Anne Applebaum

Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was also an…

— Masha Gessen

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

— Vladimir Putin

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had…

— Aldrich Ames

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by…

— Tom Clancy

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he…

— Ronald Kessler

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man,…

— Masha Gessen

The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957!…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“One possible motive in the murder was an article Litvinenko wrote claiming Putin was a pedophile. The article said: After graduating from the Andropov…

— Cliff Kincaid

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is…

— Anna Politkovskaya

“The Russian spy agency had been ordered to make a bold move, hack the American elections, and engage in political warfare to elect Donald…

— Malcolm Nance