At the beginning of March, Oleg Gordiyevsky, one of the key spies of the Cold War died
In the 1980s he helped prevent dangerous escalation.
London. In early March at the age of 86, Oleg Gordiyevsky died, probably the highest built Soviet spy for Cold War It ran to the west. The agencies informed about it today. Events in Czechoslovakia in Czechoslovakia also had an impact on his career August 1968. Gordijevsky died on March 4 in England, where he lived since 1985.
According to AP, the police reported on Saturday that he did not investigate his death as suspicious.
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Historians consider Gordijevsky to be one of the most important spies of the Cold War. He was born in 1938 in Moscow and entered the Soviet secret service in the early 1960s. He worked in Moscow, Copenhagen and London. He was one of the Soviet agents who lost the illusions of the Soviet Union after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops seized Prague Spring. The British secret service Mi6 won it for cooperation in 1974 and the next 11 years was a British « mole » in KGB.
In the 1980s, it helped prevent dangerous escalation of nuclear tension between the Soviet Union and the West, AP recalls. In 1983 he signaled the Soviets that maneuvers NATO In Western Europe under the name Able Archer, they are not the start of the USSR attack.
As one of the first, the West drew attention to Mikhail Gorbachev as a possible future star of Soviet politics.
Settled in Britain
In July 1985 he managed to get to the west, settled in Britain. He was sentenced to the death penalty in the Soviet Union. He published several books in which he described his disillusionment from the Soviet regime. In one of them, for example, he stated that he concluded that the Communist system of one party « is inexorably leading to intolerance, inhumanity and the destruction of freedoms ». According to him, the best way to fight for democracy was « work for the West ».
In Britain, Gordijevsky lived under protection in the quiet city of Godalming about 65 kilometers to the southwest of London. Queen Elizabeth II. He honored him in mid -October 2007 with a noble title.
