Olag Guardfosky, a Soviet KGB The officer who secretly helped Britain to change the Cold War path, died. He was 86 years old.
Gurdfosky died in England on March 4, where he had been living in 1985 since he became defective. Police said Saturday that they did not consider his death suspicious.
Historians consider Gordefosky as one of the most important spies of this period. In the 1980s, its intelligence helped avoid a dangerous increase in nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.
Born in Moscow in 1938, Gurdidfosky joined KGB in the early 1960s, serving in Moscow, Copenhagen and London, where he became the head of the KGB station.
He was one of the Soviet agents who expressed disappointment with the USSR after the Moscow tanks crushed the Prague Spring Freedom Movement in 1968, and was recruited by the British MI6 in the early 1970s.
Book of 1990 KGB: The story inside“Communist One -party is attracted to destruction, inhumane and destruction of freedoms,” says Gordefusky and British Intelligence historian Christopher Andrew's joint author of Christopher Andrew.
He decided that the best way to fight for democracy was to “work for the West.”
He worked for British intelligence for more than a decade during the cold years of the Cold War.
In 1983, Gordefuski warned Britain and the United States that the Soviet leadership was so upset about the West's nuclear attack that it was considering the first strike.
Since tensions increased during NATO military exercises in Germany, Gordefuski helped Moscow assure that it was not a precursor to the nuclear attack.
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Immediately after, the US president Ronald Reagan Started tricks to reduce nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union.
In 1984, Gordefosky briefed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev soon before his first visit to the UK-and also told the British that the reformist Gorbachev was also told about the approach. Gorbachev's meeting with the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher It was a great success.
The author of a book about a double agent, Ben Macron, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordefosky had “secretly managed to start the Cold War end.”
To defect most senior Soviet spy
Gordefuski was called back to Moscow for consultation in 1985, and he decided to go – despite the fear – that his role as a double agent has been exposed.
It was drugs and investigations but were not charged, and Britain arranged a secret operation to get out of the Soviet Union – smuggled smuggled across the border crossing the trunk of a car.
He was the most senior Soviet spy during the Cold War.
Documents rejected in 2014 showed that Britain considered Gurdidfosky so valuable that Thatcher tried to contract with Moscow: If Gurdidfoski's wife and daughters were allowed to join London, the UK did not expose all the GB agents who had exposed them.
Moscow rejected the offer, and despite the objections of Foreign Secretary Geoffry Ho, ordered 25 Russians to be deported, who performed it, as Gorbachev was reducing prejudice between Russia and the West.
Moscow replied by ousting 25 Britishs, giving birth to another period, in which each party kicked six more officials.
But, despite the fear of Ho, diplomatic relations have never been cut off.
Gurdfosky's family was kept under the supervision of 24 -hour GB for six years before allowing it to join England in 1991.
He spent the rest of his life under the protection of Britain, 64 km southwest of London, in the quiet city of Godalding.
Death is not considered suspicious
In Russia, Gordefuski was sentenced to death for treason.
In the UK, Queen Elizabeth II appointed her in 2007 for “UK Security Services” in 2007, appointed by St. Michael and St. George's order.
This is the same definition that the British spy James Bond is with.
In 2008, Gordefuski claimed that he had been poisoned and spent 34 hours in a coma after taking a stained gold pills given by a Russian business partner.
Former Russian Intelligence Officer faced his dangers in 2018. Sergey Script And his daughter was poisoned and seriously poisoned in the English city of Salisbury with a Soviet -made nerve agent, where he had been quietly living for years.
Surrey Police Force said that the officers were called on March 4 for a address in Godalding, where “an 86 -year -old man was found dead in the property.”
It states that anti -terrorism officers are guiding the investigation, but “death is not being considered suspicious at the moment” and “there is nothing to suggest a growing threat to members of the public.”
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