welcome
BBC

BBC

World

World

Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies at Surrey home

BBC
Summary
Nutrition label

73% Informative

Oleg Gordievsky , a colonel in Russia 's KGB , died peacefully at his home in Surrey .

He was said to be Britain 's most valuable spy in living memory.

He has lived in Surrey under police protection since Moscow became suspicious of him in 1985 .

He narrowly escaped arrest, trial and a firing squad by getting smuggled across the border into Finland in a car.