He was sent to East Berlin as a diplomatic trainee in August 1961. He attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations where he specialized in German. Oleg Gordievsky was born in Moscow in 1938. 'Only Gordievsky could.persuade the powers that mattered.' – The Spectator 'Gripping.' – Luke Harding, Guardian correspondent and author of Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia. It also paints the most graphic picture yet of the paranoia and incompetence, intrigues and sheer nastiness of the all-encompassing and sometimes ridiculous KGB. Gordievsky’s autobiography gives a fascinating account of life as a secret agent. Peopled with bizarre, dangerous and corrupt characters, Gordievsky’s story introduces the reader to the fantastical world of the Soviet Embassy, tells of the British MPs and trade unionists who helped and took money from the KGB, and reveals at last what the author told Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders which made him of such value to the West.
Here for the first time his extraordinary, meticulously planned escape from Russia is described. He gave Western security organizations such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the whole system of Soviet Government that he has been credited with doing more than any other individual in the West to accelerate the collapse of Communism.
He gave Western security organizations such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.įor eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then in London. For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then in London. Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.
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