![]() So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.īen Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War By Ben Macintyre, Narrated by John Lee While it would have been nice to have the printed word in front of me, I still greatly enjoyed the audiobook of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor, detailing Oleg Gordievsky's life as a double agent, from 1974 to 1985. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. ![]() A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with prolific author Ben MacIntyre to discuss the Oleg Gordievsky case and MacIntyres new book, The Spy and the. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold WarĪ thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians. ![]()
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