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Oleg Gordievsky

Colonel of the KGB

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Dec 15, 2025
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the spy and the asset

Ben Macintyre’s bestselling book The Spy and the Traitor recounts the career of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB colonel who spied for MI6 and—according to Macintyre’s reporting and multiple reviews—provided “t...

Feb 3, 2026

What declassified MI6 files, if any, mention Robert Maxwell and what do they say?

Available reporting and secondary sources assert that ’s Secret Intelligence Service () had contacts with and that MI6 officers helped him early in his , but none of the provided documents are explici...