KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86: Former British mole who leaked Russian secrets and techniques passes away in Surrey dwelling after defecting within the Seventies

KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86.

Gordievsky was said to be Britain’s most valuable spy inside Russia‘s intelligence agencies.

A colonel in Russia’s KGB, Gordievsky, spent many years working as a double agent, passing vital intelligence to both Britain’s MI6 and MI5.

Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious.

He passed away peacefully at his home in Surrey, the BBC reports.

Gordievsky has lived in the ceremonial county under police protection since Moscow became suspicious of him in 1985 and he narrowly avoided arrest, trial and a firing squad by getting smuggled across the border into Finland in the boot of a car.

KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86

He spent many years working as a double agent, passing vital intelligence to both Britain’s MI6 and MI5

Gordievsky has lived in the ceremonial county under police protection since Moscow became suspicious of him in 1985 and he narrowly avoided arrest, trial and a firing squad by getting smuggled across the border into Finland in the boot of a car

When the plum job of a posting to the KGB station in London came up in 1981, Oleg Gordievsky eagerly put himself forward.

He had been languishing in a desk job at headquarters in Moscow for three years. Here was a chance to get back into the game. 

Gordievsky worked undercover for the KGB – the Soviet secret service – in London in the early Eighties, sending reports back to Moscow. 

But he was also, bravely, spying for the West. 

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