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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

I doubt that Andrew Murray ever risked his life for his beliefs. But in a recent Morning Star column Murray takes the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read full article: Brevard County plan frees up money for firefighter pay, but Titusville area could bear the brunt of funding loss LONDON – Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped ...