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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the cold war, it sometimes seemed that the KGB was better at recruiting western spies than the west ...

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 ...

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 ...