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 ...

Soviet double agent on hunger strike in London Ben Macintyre tells the fascinating true story of the only woman to become a top Soviet spy Gordievsky's family remained under KGB surveillance for ...

Born in Moscow in 1938, Gordievsky joined the KGB in the early 1960s ... Ben Macintyre, author of a book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordievsky ...

LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course ... Ben Macintyre, author of a book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that ...