NARRATIVE – Died last month at the age of 86 peacefully in his English cottage, this ex-colonel of the KGB recruited by the MI6 had been unmasked in 1985 and exfiltrated from USSR. Life worthy of a novel by a double agent who has changed the course of history with its revelations.
He left as he should have lived, in discretion, silence and the mists of the mystery. The most famous KGB’s defectors, Oleg Gordievsky, died peacefully at the age of 86 last month, in its cottage of Godalming, southwest of London. Anonymous citizen in an anonymous town in Surrey. The former double agent had become a peaceful retired, loving the “British” look, tie club and tweed jacket. The Russian had adopted the culture of the world he had chosen.
It was in 1985 that the colonel of the KGB passed to the west, after being unmasked. The exfiltration of the spy is incredible, with a scenario that would have raised their shoulders to any fiction editor. In April, the spy stationed in London was suddenly recalled in Moscow, for a “promotion”. He knows he is watched, is wary, hesitates to defection, but finally fly away for the USSR despite the deadly risks he knows.
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