Word: kgb
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British officials also suggested that Gordievsky was a much more important catch than KGB Officer Oleg Lyalin, whose 1971 defection led to the expulsion of 105 Soviets from Britain. Some experts even thought that Gordievsky might prove as valuable as Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a highly productive spy in Britain's service who was snared by the Soviets and executed...
Gordievsky, 46, first posted to London in 1982 and recently promoted to head KGB operations, or the "residency," in London, apparently had been working for the British for some time. Intelligence sources in London said last week that his knowledge of Soviet agents and British moles enabled him to tip off British counterintelligence regarding a wide range of Soviet spying. He was also said to have provided sophisticated assessments of Soviet foreign and military policy: he reportedly advised his British contacts well before Konstantin Chernenko's death that Mikhail Gorbachev was certain to assume the Soviet leadership, and provided information...
...come in from the cold at this time remained a matter of intense press speculation in London. Allegations that he had acted for material reasons were dismissed as "rubbish" by government officials. Said one: "He defected for principle, not money or women or the bright lights." In fact, the KGB may have been on the verge of unmasking Gordievsky as a double agent. Had it been safe for him to stay in place, British intelligence certainly would have wanted him to do so. Moreover, Gordievsky, described as a man deeply attached to his family, defected while his wife and children...
...ordered to leave Britain was Mikhail Bogdanov, an affable correspondent for the newspaper Socialist Industry, who often entertained British colleagues at the House of Commons press bar and at dinner parties. One British newsman remembered a gathering at which Soviet guests, including Bogdanov, began joking about spies and the KGB. "Of course, I'm a KGB officer," said Bogdanov, smiling. "But Nadia (his wife) is more senior. She is a colonel. I am only a major...
South Africa reconsiders citizenship and pass laws. A KGB official defects, and Britain expels 25 Soviets. A Thai coup foiled...