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    Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate...
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    have been ALES, Mark contends. In 1985, a high-ranking KGB agent, Oleg Gordievsky (b. 1938), who was recruited in 1974 as a British double agent, defected...
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    Cumberbatch played Greville Wynne. Gervase Cowell George Kisevalter Oleg Gordievsky List of KGB defectors Schecter, Deriabin & Penkovsky 1992, p. 284....
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  • Cambridge ring was not confirmed until 1990, by Soviet double-agent Oleg Gordievsky. This was re-confirmed by former KGB agent Yuri Modin's book published...
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    the KGB office, and subsequently came under the wing of the FSB." Oleg Gordievsky, a former colonel of the KGB who worked for the British Secret Intelligence...
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  • impetus for the implementation of Operation RYaN is not known for sure. Oleg Gordievsky, the highest-ranking KGB official ever to defect, attributed it to...
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    speed skater Oleg Gordievsky (born 1938), Soviet KGB agent who defected to the UK Oleg Gorobiy (born 1971), Russian canoeist Oleg Goroshko (born 1989)...
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  • double agent Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky. She devised and led an elaborate escape plan called Operation Pimlico, which extracted Gordievsky from the USSR...
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  • known to Western intelligence. He called intelligence defectors like Oleg Gordievsky "traitors." One of the allegations in his 1994 book, The First Directorate:...
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  • and for all. In the 2009 ITV programme, Inside MI5: The Real Spooks, Oleg Gordievsky recounted how he saw the head of the British section of the KGB expressing...
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