Set primarily in London in the early 1970s, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy focuses on the inner workings of British intelligence and counter-intelligence during the Cold War. Garry Oldman stars as ...

He worked for British intelligence for more than a decade during the chilliest years of the Cold War. Former Soviet spy Oleg Gordievsky after receives the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order ...

Anna Maxwell Martin, Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce star in a real-life Cold War drama. An acclaimed British spy thriller series ...

He worked for British intelligence for more than a decade during the chilliest years of the Cold War. In 1983, Gordievsky warned the U.K. and U.S. that the Soviet leadership was so worried about a ...

He was the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War. Documents declassified in 2014 showed that Britain considered Gordievsky so valuable that Thatcher sought to cut a deal with Moscow ...

It is the same accolade held by the fictional British spy James Bond. In 2008, Gordievsky claimed he had been poisoned and spent 34 hours in a coma after taking tainted sleeping pills given to him ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England ...

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86.