While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

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

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 ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died in England at ...

The man, sweating with fear in the boot of the Ford Sierra, was Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who had ...

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

Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be ...

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 ...

Oleg Gordievsky was regarded as one of Britain's most valuable spies, providing vital information to the British Secret ...

FORMER KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from Russia to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky, who is believed ...