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

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

Gordievsky passed away on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police confirmed Saturday that his death is not being treated as suspicious ...

where he became KGB station chief. He was one of several Soviet agents who grew disillusioned with the USSR after Moscow’s tanks crushed the Prague Spring freedom movement in 1968, and was ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

He'd been posted to the KGB's London office in 1982, but his tenure there abruptly ended a few years later, when Gordievsky was recalled to the Soviet Union on suspicion of being a Western mole ...

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.

FORMER KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky ... Press Association The infamous spy was the highest ranking Russian official to defect to the UK and was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the boot ...

In an earlier post (archived) from July 18, 2018, he described Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin as follows: Based on my experience of operational work at the KGB-KNB ...

Former KGB agent Yuri Shvets — who had a cover job as a correspondent for the Russian state-owned news agency TASS in Washington during the 1980s — was one of Unger's key sources for the book.