For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, 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 England, ...

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.

whose ascent to power helped bring the Cold War to a close. 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.

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One of the most important spies of the Cold War, whose covert passing of secrets to Britain helped change the course of history and avert a nuclear war, has died. Oleg Gordievsky, a former Soviet KGB ...

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 ...

Gordievsky, codenamed Hetman, was a key Cold War spy, providing Britain with crucial intelligence on Soviet leadership and KGB operations. His warnings about Soviet fears of a NATO nuclear attack ...