![]() ![]() Typifying the moral murkiness of espionage, the only people he could trust were the British contacts with whom he shared secrets over an 11-year period. Deception was at the heart of his relationships with his partners, parents, friends and colleagues. He transferred his loyalties, and spied, because he believed it was the right thing to do it was a "righteous betrayal".Īs a double agent he led a compartmentalised life. It began with the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, which he witnessed, and deepened with the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968, which appalled him. Gordievsky's rapid rise within the KGB paralleled his growing disillusionment with the Soviet system. ![]() Unlike his nemesis, the dissolute, burnt-out CIA agent Aldrich Ames – the "traitor" in the book's title – money was not a motivation. Gordievsky was recruited by MI6 in 1974 when he was a KGB major stationed in Denmark. ![]()
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