While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, ...

The man, sweating with fear in the boot of the Ford Sierra, was Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who had ...

Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be ...

FORMER KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from Russia to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky, who is believed ...

Oleg Gordievsky was regarded as one of Britain's most valuable spies, providing vital information to the British Secret ...

I made a programme for Radio 4 on Soviet military maps from the Cold War. I needed expert opinion on the highly detailed maps ...

The first thing Oleg Gordievsky did, having decided in July 1985 to defect, was to barricade the door of his Moscow flat. When the KGB men came for him, that would slow them down. He had once been ...

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It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died at the ...

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England. He was a double agent who helped change the course of the ...