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Xan Smiley

Xan Smiley, a former correspondent in Moscow and Washington, has been the Political Editor, the Europe Editor, and the Middle East and Africa Editor of The Economist. He is now its Editor at Large.  (November 2019)

A surveillance photograph of Oleg Gordievsky taken by the Danish intelligence service during his posting in Copenhagen, circa 1966

Spy vs. Spy

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

by Ben Macintyre

November 21, 2019 issue

Kim Philby with reporters during the press conference in London, 1955, that cleared him of the charge of tipping off double agents Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1951

Kim Philby: Still an Enigma

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

by Ben Macintyre

December 4, 2014 issue

Mystery Man

The Man Who Changed The World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev

by Gail Sheehy

The New Russians

by Hedrick Smith

April 11, 1991 issue

Inside Angola

February 17, 1983 issue

Zimbabwe: The Takeover

February 5, 1981 issue

Rhodesia: Can the Bishop Win?

July 19, 1979 issue

South Africa: What Is Black?

Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology

by Gail M. Gerhart

I Write What I Like

by Steve Biko, edited by Aelred Stubbs C.R.

Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa

edited by Millard Arnold

April 19, 1979 issue

Rhodesia: The Coming Chaos

October 26, 1978 issue

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