Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies at Surrey home
Oleg Gordievsky, the dual agent of the KGB who had long defected to the UK, was 86 years old.
Godivsky is said to be the most valuable spy in the British memory of life within Russian intelligence agencies.
Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not considered suspicious.
The BBC understands that he died peacefully at his home in Surrey.
Gordievsky, the Russian KGB colonel, spent it As a dual agent for many yearsdeliver important intelligence to the UK’s MI6 and MI5.
He has lived in Sari under police protection since Moscow became suspicious of him in 1985. Narrow escape Arrest, trial and shooting squads entered Finland by smuggling on the car’s boots.
Two years ago, a KGB resident in London at the height of the Cold War, he warned his British deputy that Moscow’s imagined accidental attack on the West became so paranoid that the Soviet Union began preparing for its first strike.
Due to his tips, NATO cut its military exercise coded archers and avoided the crisis.
