While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its ...

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

LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer 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, where he ...

Oleg Gordievsky at Buckingham Palace after receiving the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George from the Queen (Fiona Hanson/PA) On a July afternoon in 1985 two ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer 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 at the age of 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since ...

On a July afternoon in 1985 two cars pulled up in a remote Russian lay-by in a cloud of dust as a dishevelled figure emerged from the bushes. After a cursory exchange the man clambered into the ...