![]() ![]() ‘The world’s most important spy since the Second World War. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.īen Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever. Overall, the book is a must read for anyone who wishes to know more about the Soviet spy who secretly passed intelligence to MI6 and eventually defected to the. ![]() The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. ![]() A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. ‘The best true spy story I have ever read’ John le Carré A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain’s greatest historians – now with a new afterword. ![]()
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