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 had lived ...

AS soon as he sipped his glass of Armenian brandy, Oleg Gordievsky knew he was in a fight for his life. If he could only keep ...

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 helped ...

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 the ...

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, where ...

He was a top KGB officer who was disillusioned with the Soviet Union. From there, Oleg Gordievsky was recruited by MI6 and became one of the West’s most important double agents. Writer Ben Macintyre ...

FILE- Former Soviet spy Oleg Gordievsky after receiving the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London, Oct. 17, ...