Before his brave escape, Gordievsky was taken to a KGB safe house where he was drugged and interrogated. The spy was released and fled through a MI6 devised escape plane, before he could be re ...

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

Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be Britain's most valuable spy inside Russia's intelligence agencies and spent many years leaking information to ...

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.

But in 1985, just as he had been appointed to the key post of head of the KGB residency in London, he came under suspicion as a British spy. Summoned back to Moscow where he was drugged and ...

The 1990 book “KGB: The Inside Story,” co-authored by ... Ben Macintyre, author of a book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordievsky managed “in ...

Based in London, he was summoned to Moscow in May 1985 by his KGB superiors, suspicious that he might be a British spy. Drugged and interrogated, he gave nothing away, perhaps remembering Philby ...

Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old often known by his nickname of "Big Balls," already has a colorful history, with other reports claiming he is the grandson of a KGB spy. According to records ...

One bombshell document said that the FBI knew about the meeting between Oswald and the KGB spy. The files also revealed how a reporter at Cambridge News told cops he received a chilling call just ...

The 1990 book “KGB: The Inside Story,” co-authored by ... Ben Macintyre, author of a book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordievsky managed “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 ...