成人快手

Oleg Gordievsky, the longstanding KGB double agent who defected from the Soviet Union to Britain, has died peacefully at home in Surrey. He was 86. He was said to be Britain鈥檚 most valuable-ever Russian spy. Newshour's Paul Henley spoke to Ben Macintyre, the author of - The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War - about Oleg Gordievsky's remarkable double life, in which he was credited with preventing World War III. How was he this significant?

(Photo: Oleg Gordievsky the KGB Colonel turned British spy, is seen here in disguise, in the Marlborough Hotel in London, on 16 October 1990. Gordievsky was in hiding after the former KGB Colonel and KGB station chief in London, was uncovered as a British spy for M16. He escaped to the west from Moscow in 1985. He arrived for this exclusive photo shoot wearing a wig, false beard and glasses. Credit: David Levenson/Getty Images)