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    Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG ([Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |link= (help); born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel...
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    have been ALES, Mark contends. In 1985, a high-ranking KGB agent, Oleg Gordievsky (b. 1938), who was recruited in 1974 as a British double agent, defected...
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    Cumberbatch played Greville Wynne. Gervase Cowell George Kisevalter Oleg Gordievsky List of KGB defectors Schecter, Deriabin & Penkovsky 1992, p. 284....
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    the KGB office, and subsequently came under the wing of the FSB." Oleg Gordievsky, a former colonel of the KGB who worked for the British Secret Intelligence...
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  • impetus for the implementation of Operation RYaN is not known for sure. Oleg Gordievsky, the highest-ranking KGB official ever to defect, attributed it to...
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  • Cambridge ring was not confirmed until 1990, by Soviet double-agent Oleg Gordievsky. This was re-confirmed by former KGB agent Yuri Modin's book published...
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  • known to Western intelligence. He called intelligence defectors like Oleg Gordievsky "traitors." One of the allegations in his 1994 book, The First Directorate:...
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  • double agent Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky. She devised and led an elaborate escape plan called Operation Pimlico, which extracted Gordievsky from the USSR...
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  • for all." In the 2009 ITV programme, Inside MI5: The Real Spooks, Oleg Gordievsky recounted how he saw the head of the British section of the KGB expressing...
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    speed skater Oleg Gordievsky (born 1938), Soviet KGB agent who defected to the UK Oleg Gorobiy (born 1971), Russian canoeist Oleg Goroshko (born 1989)...
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  • its ability to be hard to detect in a person who has ingested it." Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior KGB agent ever to defect to Britain, made a similar...
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    " Colonel Oleg Gordievsky was the head of the London rezidentura (station) and spied for MI6. Ames handed over information about Gordievsky that positively...
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  • files. He claimed Harry Hopkins was a secret Russian agent. Moreover, Oleg Gordievsky, a high-level KGB officer who also defected from the Soviet Union,...
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    He was cooperating with the CIA and FBI. Ames reported that Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, London resident, had spied for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS...
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    Gott resigned from The Guardian in 1994, after senior KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky accused him of having been a Soviet "agent of influence", a tag Gott...
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    Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Oleg Gordievsky); Viking, 2018, 352pp; ISBN 978-0241186657 Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother...
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    Instructions) (with Oleg Gordievsky) More Instructions from The Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975–1985 (1992) (with Oleg Gordievsky) Comrade...
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    involved in the successful exfiltration of the former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky. A news article states that SIS will neither confirm nor deny they...
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    ed. "Russian Imperialism". Rutgers University Press. 1974, p. 140 Oleg Gordievsky and Christopher Andrew (1999). KGB: The Inside Story of its intelligence...
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  • Hornby, Richard Ingrams, Joseph O'Neill, Lynn Barber, Derek Mahon, Oleg Gordievsky, John Sutherland and D. J. Taylor. Recently[when?] published authors...
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  • in America—The Stalin Era. ISBN 0-375-75536-5. Shulamith Behr and Oleg Gordievsky (2005). Arts in Exile in Britain 1933–1945: Politics and Cultural Identity...
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    controversy over the infiltration of the party by Militant.[citation needed] Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who defected from the Soviet Union to the...
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    the Cold War, arguably peaking with the recruitment in the 1970s of Oleg Gordievsky who SIS ran for the better part of a decade, then successfully exfiltrated...
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  • Archived 2012-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky. KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev...
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    was in fact the "fifth man"; that was confirmed in 1989 by KGB agent Oleg Gordievsky who had defected to Britain. His designation as the fifth man was also...
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    on the other hand, also had a few successes of importance, of whom Oleg Gordievsky was perhaps the most influential. He was a senior KGB officer who was...
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    unaware of the complete Soviet response until British intelligence asset Oleg Gordievsky passed on the information. During the Persian Gulf War, Ba'athist Iraq...
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  • Ruth Fischer Yosef Amit Yuri Nosenko Oleg Penkovsky Valery Martinov Vitaly Yurchenko Dmitri Polyakov Oleg Gordievsky Adolf Tolkachev Agnes Smedley Al Sarant...
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  • published by Routledge. In 1990 the consulting editor of the journal was Oleg Gordievsky. As of 2017 the editors were Mark Phythian and Stephen Marrin. "Editorial"...
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    early 1980s she was reportedly one of only five people aware that Oleg Gordievsky, the deputy head of the KGB at the Soviet embassy in London, was actually...
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