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< p > this is reported by bbc.
< p > according to media reports, Gordievsky was the most valuable spy of Great Britain in the memory of now living employees of Russian special services. His death did not cause suspicion of law enforcement agencies and is considered as a natural case. He died peacefully in his own house.
< p > colonel of the Russian State Security Committee Oleg Gordievsky worked for many years as a double agent. He transferred important intelligence to the British intelligence services Mi-6 and Mi-5. The information transferred by Gordievsky led to the expulsion of 25 Soviet agents operating under the guise in the UK.
< p > in 1985, Moscow suspected him of unreliability, but he miraculously managed to avoid arrest, trial and execution, since he was secretly transported across the border to Finland in the trunk of the car. His escape from the USSR was perceived by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain Jeffrey Hou as a “very significant success of the British security forces.”< p > two years before exposure and escape, being a resident of the KGB in London in the midst of the Cold War, he warned his British curators that Moscow was so afraid of the imaginary sudden attack of the West that the Soviet Union began to prepare the first blow. As a result of NATO, military exercises reduced his lead, and the crisis was prevented.
< p > after the completion of his espionage career, Gordievsky wrote a number of books on the activities of the KGB. In 2007, Gordievsky was awarded Queen Elizabeth the title of Cavalier of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Interestingly, the main character of Fleming’s novels, the fictional agent of the British secret service James Bond, received the same title in one of the books Recall, for a long time Gordievsky was one of the Mishens of Putin. In addition to him, at least 8 people who are in this black list are known. Some of them have already managed to survive the attempt on their life.
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