Item COLD WAR 28/119 - Transcript of interview with double agent Oleg Gordievsky, 1998

Typescript transcript of interview with Col Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, Soviet KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) Officer, 1962-1985, relating to the role of the KGB during the Cold War, 1953-1990; Gordievsky's commitment to the role of the KGB at the height of the Cold War, 1962-1963; the spread, via the KGB, of Soviet influence throughout the world, 1953-1990; how KGB operations could enable the USSR to win the Cold War, 1962-1985; the role of the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye), the Soviet Military Intelligence Service, during the Cold War, 1953-1990; KGB and GRU operations in the UK, the USA and France, [1962-1985]; the effectiveness of intelligence gathering techniques of the KGB and GRU, 1962-1985; the useful intelligence that could be gathered from western newspapers, magazines and journals, 1962-1985; the expulsion of 105 Soviet agents from London, UK, by the British Government, 1971; the influence of the major spies, such as Oleg Penkovsky, Dmitri Polyakov, George Blake (Georgy Ivanovich Behar) and Harold 'Kim' Philby, on the Cold War, 1945-1989; Gordievsky's opinion of Penkovsky, executed by the Soviets for treason, Oct 1962; the influence of other defectors on Gordievsky's decision to spy for the West, 1973; Gordievsky's defection to the West, 1985; the background to the reasons why Soviet GRU Gen Dmitri Polyakov spied for the USA, 1961-[1981]; the treatment by the KGB of captured Soviet spies who worked for the USA, [1962-1989]; intelligence provided by the KGB and the GRU on the US development of 'smart' weapons and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), [1983-1985]; the Aldrich Ames case, [1986]; Gordievsky's arrest and imprisonment by the KGB, May-Jul 1985; the role of intelligence gathering agencies in preventing war, [1953-1989]. 33pp