This programme’s about the man who has undoubtedly been the greatest spy in the history of the world. Every one of you listening right now owes your life to him. If it wasn’t for him World War III would definitely have happened. No “”ifs” or “buts” – the Third World War would definitely have happened and civilisation would have ended.

A lot of people know about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. That was nothing. The only reason that the world was saved in 1983 was thanks to this Russian spy. In this program I’m going to tell you what he did – and what difference it made.

Tag words: World War III; Third World War; Cuban missile crisis; Russian spy; Yuri Andropov; Leonid Brezhnev; Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; Soviet Union; non-Aggression Pact; Joseph Stalin; Adolf Hitler; Nazi Soviet Pact; World War 2; Nazi Germany; MAD; Mutually Assured Destruction; KGB; D-Day; Imre Nagy; Margaret Thatcher; President Reagan; Afghanistan; Vietnam; East Germany; Berlin Wall; Cuba; Great Patriotic War; Operation Ryan; first nuclear strike; President Bush; Prime Minister Tony Blair; Saddam Hussein; Colonel Oleg Gordievsky; NKVD; Prague Spring; MI6; Archbishop of Canterbury; Red Cross; The Spy and the Traitor; Ben MacIntrye;