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Peter and Helen Kroger appeared to be a typical friendly couple who owned a bookshop in west London but their true identities were later revealed as Russian spymasters Morris and Lona Cohen

From their home in Ruislip, west London, Morris and Lena Cohen helped to orchestrate what became one of the biggest Cold War espionage scandals. Above: A police car outside the home in 1961.

With his jaunty carnation buttonhole and impeccably cut suits, John Dickie, who has died aged 98, was, as former Foreign Secretary Lord (David) Owen observed, no ordinary journalist.

The Cohen couple found out nuclear and military secrets of the U.S. and the UK, but still managed to receive a Royal pardon.

United states. >> that is right. >> several spy swaps took place in the cold war and one of the most notable was in 1962 when the kgb agent rudolph abell was exchanged for francis gary powers who was shot down and imprisoned by the soviet union. since then, britain exchanged peter and helen kroger for gerald brooke. and then in 1976, eye toely sha ran ski was included in a swap for several kgb agents, and the one like powers took place at the glienicke bridge connects pottsdam to what is known a...

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