Oleg Gordievsky has died,a very brave & principled man....
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/oleg-gordievsky-famed-cold-war-141359682.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACLuIhx01vetv_8wagiD57OBjMxHnXfA_lJp9wt7qm0rw8WIwPBg8VUL75XL4Ag2cgeR78AvWyHZrq59KCYWUorsCW3kLNe4_1hp_v9PpTZCjGY6lU4HTpFGo57JdimJgdkinvAVkov_eLYk_vwi_i4DabmJvPql_m_t-Kdg89P3
Agent cases on which he reported included some on the Left wing of the Labour Party and trade unions, such as Jack Jones, the former union leader who had been a paid agent from 1964 to 1968 and who in the 1980s was still providing political gossip on colleagues. Gordievsky also summarised the KGB’s file on their relations with Michael Foot, another (albeit possibly unwitting) source of personal and political gossip whom they code-named BOOT. The Guardian’s then literary editor, Richard Gott, was identified as an agent of influence funded by the KGB.
Gordievsky’s value as an agent, however, extended well beyond his counter-espionage reporting, important though that was. His curiosity, charm and natural political acumen enabled him to report on contemporary issues ranging from covert Russian funding of the National Union of Mineworkers to Libyan terrorism (including the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher) and to Russian views on exploiting the British anti-nuclear campaign.
He wrote several books with the historian Christopher Andrew and published his own memoir, Next Stop Execution, which would later be a source for Ben Macintyre’s non-fiction bestseller The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War.
I can recommend the Ben Macintyre book,it is a superb read.
