Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war
Born on October 10 1938 in Moscow, the son of a committed communist and officer in the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB), Oleg ...
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Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war
the son of a committed communist and officer in the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB), Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky had always appeared destined for a career in Soviet intelligence. After studying at ...
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Soviet defector Oleg Gordievsky dies in the UK at 86
Born in Moscow to a family of an NKVD officer, Gordievsky graduated from MGIMO and joined the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, which handled foreign intelligence. He served as a Soviet agent in ...
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CHINA: High Tide of Terror
But the Chinese system differs in one important respect from the Russian: Stalin’s NKVD and MVD worked in ... among the students at the Communist officers’ school in order to expose their ...