With his training in spycraft and a prodigious ability to retain, repeat and analyze dense intelligence information, Gordievsky is considered to be one of the most impressive and valuable double agents of the Cold War. However, after witnessing the murder of innocent people trying to escape East Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and uncovering the violence of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Gordievsky sought new alliances in the West. Because of his impeccable language skills and his status as the son of a loyal KGB member, Gordievsky rose through the ranks of the organization with hardly a mark on his record, and seemed an unlikely candidate for treason.
In this nonfiction Cold War espionage thriller, Ben Macintyre examines double-agent Oleg Gordievsky's monumental betrayal of Soviet and KGB intelligence by passing information to Western powers.įor over a decade, Oleg Gordievsky of the Soviet Union was a double-agent for the British, climbing the rungs of the Soviet KGB's political ladder while supplying the British MI6 with increasingly valuable information.
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