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Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer to ever become a British spy. He almost single-handedly shaped world events at one of the most dangerous times in global history during the Cold War when humanity peered over the precipice of nuclear holocaust. The plan to rescue him from deep behind the Iron Curtain after he was compromised was thought to be virtually impossible.

While to his motherland he remains a traitor, to the Western world he is a hero that risked it all for the sake of the democratic freedoms most of us take for granted.

This is the Gripping Tale of Britain's Greatest Spy.

0:00 - Introduction
0:51 - Early Life
3:07 - Coming of Age
5:51 - Joining the KGB
9:00 - A Dangerous Courtship
12:41 - Sunbeam
16:41 - Operation PIMLICO
20:38 - Return to Russia
23:21 - Spying in London
28:15 - Moscow Recall
32:59 - The Escape
40:23 - The Legacy
42:33 - Outro

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