![]() ![]() Although the risk was too great to do any spying in Russia, Gordievsky learned English in hopes of being posted abroad again. Subsequently, as Chapter 5 describes, Gordievsky returned to the Soviet Union, where he divorced his first wife and married Leila, a woman he began an affair with while in Denmark. After more than a year back in Moscow, Gordievsky and his wife returned to Denmark, and Chapter 3 covers this period, during which he was successfully recruited to work as a spy for MI6, the British foreign intelligence service.Ĭhapter 4 describes Gordievsky’s work with two successive MI6 handlers during the years 1975-77. Chapter 2 covers Gordievsky’s first stint in Denmark, where he reveled in the West’s freedoms and rich culture. ![]() The first chapter then backs up to tell Gordievsky’s story from his early years with his parents through 1965, when he was first posted overseas as a new KGB agent. With this revelation, the Introduction abruptly ends. The book opens with a brief Introduction describing a scene that took place in May 1985: When KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky, a spy for British intelligence, returned from London to his apartment in Moscow, he realized upon unlocking the door that his apartment had been broken into-and that the KGB was after him-because all three locks were secured, but he’d locked only two of them. This guide is based on the first edition hardcover by Crown Publishing. ![]()
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