This Danger Zone programme’s about how a Russian double agent, Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, fled the Soviet Union using only a plastic Safeways shopping bag and a Mars Bar.
And how an American spy got that old South American feeling – I Yi Yi Yi – and married his dream Latino woman, of very expensive tastes and needs, so he became a Russian spy to give her the lifestyle that she needed and that he couldn’t afford on his CIA salary - and because of him at least 10 men died.
Tag words: World War III; Ronald Reagan; KGB; MI6; CIA; Cold War; NATO; Oleg Gordievsky; Margaret Thatcher; Ben MacIntrye; The Spy and the Traitor; Safeways; Mars bar; PIMLICO; Aldrich Ames; Rosario Casas Dupuy; TICKLE; Nieman Marcus department store; Chuvakhin; Joe and Mos’s restaurant; K Directorate; Viktor Chebrikov; Vladimir Kryuchkov; Colonel Viktor Budanov; Aeroflot; Arthur Gee; Kit Kat; Charles Powell; Caroline Ascot;
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By Paul FordyceThis Danger Zone programme’s about how a Russian double agent, Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, fled the Soviet Union using only a plastic Safeways shopping bag and a Mars Bar.
And how an American spy got that old South American feeling – I Yi Yi Yi – and married his dream Latino woman, of very expensive tastes and needs, so he became a Russian spy to give her the lifestyle that she needed and that he couldn’t afford on his CIA salary - and because of him at least 10 men died.
Tag words: World War III; Ronald Reagan; KGB; MI6; CIA; Cold War; NATO; Oleg Gordievsky; Margaret Thatcher; Ben MacIntrye; The Spy and the Traitor; Safeways; Mars bar; PIMLICO; Aldrich Ames; Rosario Casas Dupuy; TICKLE; Nieman Marcus department store; Chuvakhin; Joe and Mos’s restaurant; K Directorate; Viktor Chebrikov; Vladimir Kryuchkov; Colonel Viktor Budanov; Aeroflot; Arthur Gee; Kit Kat; Charles Powell; Caroline Ascot;