About Oleg Gordievsky
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky was a colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London and a British spy. Gordievsky became disenchanted with his work in the KGB during his first Danish posting, particularly after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky (Russian: Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; 10 October 1938 – 4 March 2025) was a colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London and a British spy. After Gordievsky had learned to speak English he lobbied heavily for a position that became vacant in London, and the KGB posted him to London in June 1982.
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