Meanwhile, in Great Britain, the Cambridge Five gave Joseph Stalin an inside look at MI6. During the war, Soviet spies infiltrated the supposedly-super-secret Manhattan Project, advancing the USSR’s work on an atomic bomb by an appreciable factor. Starting even before the Second World War, Communist agents worked their way into high places in American government, passing on intelligence to the Kremlin. Were we to judge the Cold War simply on the exploits of human spies, the Soviet Union would be declared the undisputed winner. ěen Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

The spy was being spied upon by his fellow spies…” That someone must have been the KGB…The fear of the previous week crystallized in a freezing rush, with the chilling, paralyzing recognition that his apartment had been entered, searched, and probably bugged. That must mean that someone with a skeleton key had been inside, and on leaving had mistakenly triple-locked the door. The third lock on the door, an old-fashioned dead bolt dating back to the construction of the apartment block, had been locked…But Gordievsky never used the third lock. He had not been inside the family flat since January…The first lock on the front door opened easily, and then the second. “As far as could tell, no one had followed him as he entered the familiar apartment block on Leninsky Prospekt and took the elevator to the eighth floor. Gordievsky greatly assisted her in improving Anglo-Russian relations.ĭo yourself a favor and pick this up for your favorite Uncle at Christmas but read it before you gift it. I also loved Margaret Thatcher's involvement in this story and her admiration and support of this gentleman and who was known to her as Mr. MacIntyre has a supreme ability to write a true story with both a factual and compassionate touch injecting just enough humor about some of the antics and errors that occurred by various players along the way. This reader was enthralled, thrilled and riveted. Gordievsky's two ex wives, colleagues, friends and enemies were also given a voice in this riveting and information packed book. He also read countless other source materials but was not privy to secret documents held by the superpowers. Gordievsky over several visits as well as many other M-16, KGB, CIA and other European secret agents. Oleg Gordievsky was Russian KGB that became an agent for M-16 in England and over the course of the Cold War was able to feed England important information that may have led not only to our world being safe from nuclear disaster but perhaps also to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

MacIntyre has written a superb and thrilling book about one of our foremost living spies. 5 ' superb, exciting, edge of your seat' stars !!

The spy and the traitor book