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The body of one of Russia’s top spies has washed up on the Turkish coast after he disappeared close to a sensitive Russian naval facility in neighbouring Syria. Gen. Yuri Ivanov, 52, deputy head of GRU, the Russian military's overseas intelligence arm of Russian military, was found dead in mysterious circumstances. Major-General Yuri Ivanov, 52, was the deputy head of Russia’s foreign military intelligence arm known as GRU which is thought to operate the biggest network of foreign spies out of all of Russia’s clandestine intelligence services.

MI5 has warned government departments that Russia has resumed Cold War spying tactics in Britain, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The Security Service, which is responsible for counter-espionage within Britain, circulated the confidential document last month in response to an increase in the activities of Russian intelligence agents. The document warns that Russian spies are travelling widely throughout Britain and pose a "substantial" espionage threat. The document also warns that any suspected spies should not be stopped, questioned or followed but that their activities should be reported to Special Branch officers and passed on to MI5. The suspected spies -...

The Berkley Pub Group who is responsible for all of the Tom Clancy novels says that in the next Clancy film 'Red Rabbit,' (which is the second to last flick in the series) Ben Affleck will not be in it.Seems they've been told by a colleague at a company called Artists Production Group that the studio is not going to use Ben Affleck because of his poor box office record as of late. ('Gigli') Now they are trying to find a new Jack Ryan, with Tom Cruise and David Duchovny of 'X Files' coming up as contenders.An even bigger surprise...