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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.
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.
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...
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.
At a time when the Cold War spying game was in full swing, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the KGB's rising stars...and biggest traitors. For years, he provided top-secret Russian intelligence to...
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