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Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London. He was a double agent, providing information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1974 to 1985.
The stories of Oleg Gordievsky, Sergei Bokhan and Leonid Poleshchuk—reported here in extensive new detail and based on interviews with Gordievsky, Bokhan and Andrei Poleshchuk, as well as...
May 9, 2024 · Who is Oleg Gordievsky and why does he matter? Now in his 80s and living, it’s said, somewhere in the south of England, Gordievsky was a career KGB spy who rose to become bureau chief in London in the early 1980s.
Jul 19, 2015 · Thirty years after MI6 double agent Oleg Gordiyevsky, a colonel in the KGB, escaped from the Soviet Union, the man regarded as the West's most valuable Cold War intelligence asset tells RFE/RL...
May 5, 2024 · Gordievsky’s motivations have always been explained as simple: his time in Copenhagen opened his eyes to the falsities of the Soviet doctrine, so he courageously decided to risk it all by...
Sep 21, 2019 · He exposed Soviet espionage rings, helped avert a nuclear conflagration and changed the course of the Cold War. The story of a senior KGB officer who, as a double agent, became one of the most influential spies ever.
Aug 12, 2018 · A double agent for MI6, Oleg Gordievsky helped avert a nuclear confrontation and bring about the end of the Cold War. Author and historian Ben Macintyre reveals this incredible story of treachery and betrayal.
Jun 21, 2024 · The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky and ...
Mar 5, 1990 · OLEG GORDIEVSKY was once the KGB's station chief in London -- and Britain's most valued double agent. He fled to the West in 1985, just before he was to be executed.
Oleg Gordievsky was a KGB Colonel secretly recruited by British intelligence during the Cold War but by 1985 Moscow was suspicious. Was there a mole in their ranks? They recalled Gordievsky from London to Russia where he was drugged and interrogated for five hours.
