Documenting the tensions between East and West, which led to a spying game and an arms race that brought the world to the ...

GCHQ, based from its famous “donut shaped” headquarters in Cheltenham and led by Anne Keast-Butler, tries to access, analyse and disrupt enemy communications. They possess unique capabilities and ...

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Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky was born in Moscow on Oct. 10, 1938. His father, a member of the Soviet secret police, was a communist true-believer who helped enforce the Stalinist bloodletting ...

Oleg Gordievsky, who was the top K.G.B. agent in London until he defected to the West in 1985 and revealed himself as a longtime double agent for British intelligence — making him one of the ...

T he 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.

LONDON — 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, where ...

Oleg Gordievsky in London in 1990. While serving as a colonel in the KGB, he shared intelligence with the West and defected to Britain. He arrived for the photo shoot wearing a wig, false beard ...

Former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky explains how, during the 1991 coup attempt, a KGB general would probably have arrived at Mikhail Gorbachev's Black Sea resort to organise a peaceful change of ...

Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985.

Former Soviet spy Oleg Gordievsky after receiving the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London, on Oct. 17, 2007.