The Spy and the Traitor

399 Pages·2018·42.12 MB·English

by  Ben Macintyre

Copyright © 2018 by Ben Macintyre All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin
Random House LLC, New York.
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and in Canada by Signal, an imprint of Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House
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Lyrics from “Brothers in Arms” copyright © Mark Knopfler and Crockford Management. Reproduced by
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Photography credits can be found on this page.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Macintyre, Ben, 1963– author.
Title: The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War / Ben Macintyre.
Other titles: Greatest espionage story of the Cold War Description: New York : Crown Publishing Group,
2018 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018024662 (print) | LCCN 2018026376 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101904206 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781101904190 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781101904213 (trade pbk.) Subjects: LCSH: Gordievsky,
Oleg. | Spies—Soviet Union—Biography. | Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoæi bezopasnosti—
History. | Intelligence service—Soviet Union—History. | Cold War—Biography.
Classification: LCC UB271.S652 (ebook) | LCC UB271.S652 M33 2018 (print) | DDC 327.1273047092
[B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024662
ISBN 9781101904190
Ebook ISBN 9781101904206
Map by Jeff Edwards
Cover design by Michael Morris
Cover photographs: (main image) Julian Hibbard/Photonica/Getty Images; (head on right) Crystal
Spellman/EyeEm/Getty Images; (head on left) Gary Rea/EyeEm/Getty Images v5.3.2
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In memory of Joanna Macintyre (1934–2015)
He had two lives: one open, seen and known by all who cared to
know…and the other running its course in secret.
—Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
OPERATION PIMLICO MAP
INTRODUCTION: MAY 18, 1985
PART I
1: The KGB
2: Uncle Gormsson
3: SUNBEAM
4: Green Ink and Microfilm
5: A Plastic Bag and a Mars Bar
6: Agent BOOT
PART II
7: The Safe House
8: Operation RYAN
9: Koba
10: Mr. Collins and Mrs. Thatcher
11: Russian Roulette
PART III
12: Cat and Mouse
13: The Dry Cleaner
14: The Runner
15: Finlandia
EPILOGUE: PASSPORT FOR PIMLICO
CODE NAMES AND ALIASES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
PHOTO CREDITS