He is considered one of the most successful spies in history. For Gordievsky that moment was the “ Prague Spring.” This event was a turning point in his life and started him down a path that would change his and his family’s lives forever.įor years Gordievsky helped MI6 foil plots, expose Russian spies, and handed over millions of counterintelligence documents. In his book, Macintyre talks about the moment every spy has where they face a crisis of faith, where the ideological scales fall from a believer’s eyes and they see the true nature of their home. For 11 years, Gordievsky spied for MI6 against the Soviet Union. Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War. Both were traitors to their own homelands. One spied on the USSR for Britain and one spied on the United States for the USSR. Ben Macintyre’s book, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, focuses on two people, Oleg Gordievsky the spy and Aldrich Ames the traitor.
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