Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86
While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its ...
Oleg Gordievsky, a key double agent in the Cold War, dies at 86
For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...
Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86
LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to ...
Oleg Gordievsky, KGB spy turned British agent, 1938-2025
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 ...
The Spectator Australia6d
Oleg Gordievsky: the double agent Russia never stopped hunting
The death of Oleg Gordievsky at the age of 86 comes at a moment when relations between his native Russia and his adopted ...
The Spectator Australia5d
The day I met Oleg Gordievsky in a Surrey safe house
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 Economist4d
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war
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 ...