Tag: Soviet Union
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Aldrich Ames Dies at 84: CIA Double Agent Scandal
Former CIA Counterintelligence Officer Dies at 84 Aldrich H. Ames, a former CIA counterintelligence officer whose actions helped illuminate the most damaging spy case in American history, has died at the age of 84. He passed away on Monday at a federal correctional facility where he had been serving a life sentence without the possibility…
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Polar Bears Take Over Abandoned Soviet Station in the Russian Arctic
Overview: Polar bears at an abandoned Soviet station In late summer daylight, a drone video captured a group of polar bears roaming the shattered remains of a Soviet-era polar research station on Kolyuchin Island, a small outpost off Russia’s far-northern coast in the Chukchi Sea. Travel blogger Vadim Makhorov filmed bears entering and exiting the…