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Oleg Gordievsky: the double agent Russia never stopped hunting

The Spectator 23 Mar 2025
Most popular. Flora Watkins. The true villain of Netflix’s Adolescence ... Gordievsky’s life story reads like the plot of a John Le Carre spy thriller, and it has indeed been written up as such by the doyen of espionage chroniclers Ben Macintyre ... REGISTER ... .
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Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Springfield News-Sun 23 Mar 2025
He was 86 ... and U.S ... Ben Macintyre, author of a book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordievsky managed “in a secret way to launch the beginning of the end of the Cold War.”Most senior Soviet spy to defect ... Credit. AP.
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Oleg Gordievsky, Britain’s most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Wtop 22 Mar 2025
He was 86 ... The 1990 book “KGB ... and U.S ... Soon after, U.S ... Ben Macintyre, author of a book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordievsky managed “in a secret way to launch the beginning of the end of the Cold War.”.
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Oleg Gordievsky: the loneliest and bravest man I ever met

The Times/The Sunday Times 22 Mar 2025
I was in the first car ... I was writing a book about Gordievsky at the time. Jolie, a history buff, had discovered this and asked to meet him, with a view to making a. World. Europe ... BEN MACINTYRE ... Ben Macintyre ... .
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Oleg Gordievsky: the double agent who Russia never stopped hunting

The Spectator 22 Mar 2025
Most popular. Flora Watkins. The true villain of Netflix’s Adolescence ... Gordievsky’s life story reads like the plot of a John Le Carre spy thriller, and it has indeed been written up as such by the doyen of espionage chroniclers Ben Macintyre ... REGISTER ... .
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Oleg Gordievsky, KGB colonel whose brave spying for Britain changed the Cold War – obituary

The Daily Telegraph 22 Mar 2025
David Levenson/Getty Images ... 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 ... Copy link ... .
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Oleg Gordievsky obituary: Former KGB colonel turned British secret agent

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Mar 2025
Yet it was the “other things” that mattered most ... UK. Obituaries. Related articles. OBITUARY ... The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre — the tale of Britain’s double agent in the KGB is pure le Carré ... .
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Jack Lowden on Slow Horses and why he almost quit acting

The Times/The Sunday Times 16 Mar 2025
When Jack Lowden was in his late twenties he thought about quitting acting. “I just didn’t want to do it any more,” he says ... “There was me at 27 thinking about stopping because I felt self-conscious or like I didn’t know how to do it ... • Ben Macintyre ... .
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Operation Mincemeat: from British fringe to toast of Broadway?

The Times/The Sunday Times 14 Mar 2025
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku. The audience at Broadway’s Golden Theatre was merrily losing its mind ... As the zaniness increased, the laughter got louder ... Culture ... Ben Macintyre. BEN MACINTYRE ... Ben Macintyre ... .
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Golf: PGA Players Championship scores

Urdu Point 14 Mar 2025
... (SCO), Isaiah Salinda, Ben Kohles, Jacob Bridgeman, Scottie Scheffler, Taylor Pendrith (CAN), Patrick Cantlay, Austin Eckroat, Jake Knapp, Adam Hadwin (CAN)</p> .
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Spies guilty of doing Putin’s bidding in Britain

The Times/The Sunday Times 07 Mar 2025
The conviction of the most sophisticated Russian espionage ring uncovered in Britain for decades has led to Scotland Yard warning that Moscow spymasters are recruiting criminal gangs here ... UK. Crime. Related articles. BEN MACINTYRE ... Ben Macintyre ... ... .
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