Oleg Gordievsky, famous Cold War Spy and KGB Defector, 86 years old

High-ranking KGB Zabit Oleg Gordievskiy, who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, died at the age of 86.

In 1985, Gordievsky in England died on March 4 in Britain, where he lived from the Soviet Union flawlessly. Police said they did not approach the death of his death on Saturday. The BBC said Gordievsky’s house in Surrei on Friday.

When the world declared the British foreign office on September 12, 1985, Gordievsky was first described as a high-ranking official of the KGB and was given asylum in the United Kingdom.

After his defect, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher asked to agree with Moscow

Moscow rejected the proposal and said Gordievsky, who informed the series expulsion More than two people – diplomats, journalists and trade officials are more than allegations of spying.

As the Soviet leader Mikheil Gorbachev’s reforms, despite the protests of the republic, it was able to watch the volume of friends, because Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made the stalemat made between Russia and the West.

Soviet officials rejected spokirie allegations, spokesman, “As for all charges or illegal activities of Soviet representatives, there is nothing to do with reality,” he said.

Moscow responded to excavating 25 Britons. However, despite the fears of Howe, diplomatic relations were never cut.

Comforting a cunning to Moscow

In 1983, in 1983, in 1983, Gordievsk warned that the UK and the United States were so concerned about the Western nuclear attack by the West. As Gordievsky did not warn a nuclear attack, Gordievsky Moscow did not warn a nuclear attack in Germany.

Ronald Reagan soon began to move to facilitate nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union at that time.

Over time, the public would learn more about Gordievsky’s dramatic cases brought to a new life in the West.

In 1982, the KGB was placed in the London office, but its term ended in a few years later a few years later.

The daring run, the first title to Finland

As directed in May 1985, Gordievski returned to Moscow and endured, but was not accused.

In July, in July, when hiding from the Soviet Union and a car in the trunk of a car, he made a sharp run from the Soviet Union with an English exprivation efforts to hold him border.

The agents participating in his rescue work are said to play cassette notes of Jean Sibelius Finland As a signal of Gordievski, we did it on the border. He then flew through Norway to England.

The Gordievski’s family was under the control of KGB before it was allowed to join him in the UK in 1991.

“Many times, I said to myself:” It’s like a movie, this is like a movie, “said Gordievsky told the BBC History of witness Podcast in 2015He explains his escape story. “It was incredible.”

British government Gordievsky led to help reduce tensions between Russia and the West during the “prominent contribution” and “critical time of the Cold War”.