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Evening Standard
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Gavin Cordon

Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war

Oleg Gordievsky at Buckingham Palace after receiving the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George from the Queen (Fiona Hanson/PA) - (PA Archive)

On a July afternoon in 1985 two cars pulled up in a remote Russian lay-by in a cloud of dust as a dishevelled figure emerged from the bushes.

After a cursory exchange the man clambered into the boot of one the vehicles and they quickly drove off.

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