Needed money: previously unknown letter from George Washington published As it turned out, the first American president was forced to sell part of his fortune to avoid debt. In 1787, the first popularly elected president of the United States of America, George Washington, found himself in a difficult financial situation and negotiated the sale of […]
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has shown a photocopy of the very first letter that the legendary Soviet intelligence officer, Colonel William Fisher, known as Rudolf Abel, wrote in 1958 home from prison in the United States. It marked the beginning of a series of messages that played a big role in the subsequent release […]