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, ...
LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets ...
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky was born in Moscow on October 10 1938. His father, an agent with the NKVD, the KGB’s forerunner, had survived Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror, a wave of mass arrests and ...
Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died in England at ...
LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where ...