Oleg Gordievsky is a towering figure in the world of espionage who impacted the Cold War at a crucial time When posted to ...

Historians consider Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War, one of the era’s most important informants.

By Clay Risen 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 ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky passed intelligence to the British spy agency MI6, sharing secrets that ...

Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be Britain's most valuable spy in living memory inside Russia's intelligence ...

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 age of 86.

Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police said on Saturday that they are not treating his death as suspicious. Historians consider Gordievsky one of ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent 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 ...

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 course of the Cold War by covertly ...