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, who has died aged 86, was a colonel in the KGB who served as an agent for MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, from 1974 to 1985, when he defected to Britain; his reporting was ...

Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, has lived many lives. In one, he was the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) ...

In 1997 the Queen made Gordievsky a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, the honour awarded to James Bond in Ian Fleming’s books. ‘Oleg is very proud of that.

Oleg Gordievsky (right) with thriller writer Frederick Forsyth (David Cheskin/PA) It began four days earlier when, in a prearranged signal, Mr Gordievsky appeared outside a bakery in Moscow’s ...

LONDON (AP) — 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.

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