London, May 17, 1985: Oleg Gordievsky was at the pinnacle of his career. A skilled intelligence officer, he had been promoted a few months before to rezident, or chief, of the KGB station in the British capital. Moscow seemed to have no clue he'd been secretly working for MI6, the British secret intelligence service, for 11 years.
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That Friday, Gordievsky received a cable ordering him to report to Moscow “urgently” to confirm his promotion and meet with the KGB's two highest officials. “Cold fear started to run down my back,” he told me. “Because I knew it was a death sentence.”
He'd been back at headquarters only four months earlier, and all seemed well. Now, he feared, the KGB's counterspies had become suspicious and were recalling him to confront him. If he refused the summons, he would destroy his career. But if he returned home, he could be shot.
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