Oleg gordievsky wiki

Oleg Gordievsky started his KGB career fully indoctrinated in the Soviet system. His father was an operative of the NKVD, a state security predecessor to the KGB.

He learned quickly and could speak German before he went to university in Moscow. By the time he graduated from the KGB’s training, he could speak three more languages and was an expert in spycraft.

Unlike most of the KGB agents who served the Soviet Union, however, he became disillusioned with communism, and the ideals it championed that never happened in reality.

In particular, he saw the Berlin Wall erected – the worker’s paradise was more like a worker’s prison. 

Gordievsky was sent to East Berlin in , his first assignment with the foreign service. Though the Soviet Union turned out to be less than he grew up believing it was, he still did his assigned duties, and in joined the KGB.

His first posting was in Copenhagen, Denmark in It wasn’t too long befo