Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky"Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then in London. He gave Western security organizations such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the whole system of Soviet Government that he has been credited with doing more than any other individual in the West to accelerate the collapse of Communism." "Here for the first time his extraordinary, meticulously planned escape from Russia is described. Peopled with bizarre, dangerous and corrupt characters, Gordievsky's story introduces the reader to the fantastical world of the Soviet Embassy, tells of the British MPs and trade unionists who helped and took money from the KGB, and reveals at last what the author told Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders which made him of such value to the West."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... holidays . I do not think my parents ever had a holiday together before the war : my father had gone once or twice to some sanatorium in the Crimea , but always on his own . ( In about 1950 the KGB reached its zenith , with a strength ...
... holidays . I do not think my parents ever had a holiday together before the war : my father had gone once or twice to some sanatorium in the Crimea , but always on his own . ( In about 1950 the KGB reached its zenith , with a strength ...
Page 110
... holiday and report for duty on the 31st , when we would be driven to School 101. In the meantime our monthly grant would go up from 450 roubles a month to 1500 - a handy increase . Knowing that the Institute had acquired a holiday camp ...
... holiday and report for duty on the 31st , when we would be driven to School 101. In the meantime our monthly grant would go up from 450 roubles a month to 1500 - a handy increase . Knowing that the Institute had acquired a holiday camp ...
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... holiday in Moscow , with the affair very much in the air . At least the journey home was enjoyable . We took the train one of those long - distance carriages beloved of Russian travel- lers , which went the whole way from the Hook of ...
... holiday in Moscow , with the affair very much in the air . At least the journey home was enjoyable . We took the train one of those long - distance carriages beloved of Russian travel- lers , which went the whole way from the Hook of ...
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