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Editorial portrait of David Adrian Kercso against a dark red background — Illustration · Spy Register

FSB / Spy games

He Went to Meet a Woman. Russia Gave Him 15 Years.

An online romance took David Adrian Kercso to the Black Sea. Detention records exposed a problem with the FSB’s arrest film: he was already a prisoner.

Event 22 Oct 2026 · 26 Oct, 22:49 GMT · 2 min read

Graphite and ink illustration of a young Jeffrey Epstein, with a yellow band across his eyes and abstract redacted documents behind him — Illustration · Illustration: Spy Register · Licence

CIA · Mossad / Power & scandal

Epstein Offered a Future CIA Chief an Apartment

Texts to William Burns, favors involving an FSB Academy graduate and years of access to Ehud Barak trace Epstein’s reach into the intelligence establishment.

Event 1 Sept 2014 · 25 Oct, 20:59 GMT · 3 min read

The Millennium Hotel on Grosvenor Square in London — Archive · P Fletcher / Geograph · Licence

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FSB / Power & scandal · History

The poisoned teapot London traced to the FSB—and probably Putin

A radioactive trail led investigators from a Mayfair hotel to two Russian visitors, an earlier failed attempt and an operation the UK inquiry said was probably approved at the top.

Retrospective · 21 Oct, 07:01 GMT · 2 min read