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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jill Lawless

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

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86.

Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police said Saturday that they are not treating his death as suspicious.

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