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 ...
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Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war
The man, sweating with fear in the boot of the Ford Sierra, was Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer ... to ...
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KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky, who helped change course of Cold War, dies aged 86
Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course ... smuggled across the border to Finland in the trunk of a car. He was the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold ...
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Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86
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 ...
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Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's Most Valuable Cold War Spy Inside the KGB, Dies at 86
Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's Most Valuable Cold War Spy Inside the KGB, Dies at 86 LONDON ... to spirit him out of the Soviet Union — smuggled across the border to Finland in the trunk of a ...
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Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86
LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the ... him out of the Soviet Union — smuggled across the border to Finland in the trunk of a car. He was the most senior ...