Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Oleg GordievskykGB double agent

I hated the communist system, I wanted to fight against it,

Explaining his motivation, Gordievsky said ... in an archive recording, which featured in a BBC documentary Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game

Mark Urbanjournalist

Gordievsky was once described to me by an MI6 guy as the only truly ideological Soviet spy he could think of,

wrote journalist Mark Urban on X after the news of his death

I’m more British now than Russian,

he said after being honoured