![]() He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union’s top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation’s communism as both criminal and philistine. ![]() If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. ![]() ![]() In this book by Ben Macintyre, a 2018 O’Keeffe speaker at The Four Arts, find the thrilling tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Soviet Union’s top man in London who was secretly working for MI6 and helped hasten the end of the Cold War. ![]()
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