Oleg Gordievsky
Oleg Gordievsky | |
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Gordievsky in 2007 | |
| Born | Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky 10 October 1938 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 4 March 2025 (aged 86) |
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| Occupation | Spy |
| Awards | CMG |
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| Service branch | KGB SIS/MI6 |
| Rank | Colonel of the KGB |
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Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; 10 October 1938 – 4 March 2025) was a colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London.
Gordievsky was a double agent, providing information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1974 to 1985. After being recalled to Moscow under suspicion, he was exfiltrated from the Soviet Union in July 1985 under a plan code-named Operation Pimlico. The Soviet Union subsequently sentenced him to death in absentia.