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, ...

Matthew Bannister on Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB agent who defected to Britain and became a valued source of secret intelligence during the 1970s and 80s. Renee Goddard, the actress and TV commissioner ...

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 ...

Matthew Bannister on Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB agent who defected to Britain and became a valued source of secret intelligence during the 1970s and 80s. Renee Goddard, the actress and TV ...

The first phone call between Putin and Trump was described as ‘frank’. Putin did it his way, as Frank Sinatra might have said. Say what we like, the ...

But during the Great Purge he was arrested and tortured; he confessed to having worked undercover for Russia’s enemies and ...

We know the names of Kim Philby, Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess as the men who ostensibly worked for British intelligence but who passed secrets out the back door to Moscow, causing untold damage to ...

Subscribers receive the monthly magazine and access to all articles on our website. The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages.

Oleg Gordievsky, a double agent who helped British intelligence during the Cold War while stationed in London as the Soviets' ...