KGB [antikvár]

Introduction Most authors can expect, sooner or later, to make an accurate prediction, though they should not expect it to happen often. Christopher Andrew's turn arrived in October 1985 with the publication of his book Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community. While writing Secret Service, he had come to disbelieve the widespread assumption, largely derived from worldwide media interest in the Soviet moles educated at Cambridge University (where Andrew teaches history), that high-level penetration and defection remained more of a problem for the West than for the Kremlin. The career of Oleg Pen-kovsky, the Anglo-American mole in the GRU (Soviet miUtary intelligence agency) who played a vital role in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, was, he suspected, far from unique. In what Andrew's family assures him was an uncharacteristic moment of clairvoyance, he wrote in the first edition of Secret Service: "It is unsafe to conclude that there have been no Penkovskys since, simply because their names have yet to appear in the newspapers.'" Just before Secret Service was published, news broke of another and even more successful Penkovsky, this time in the KGB. His name was Oleg Gordievsky. A few months before he escaped from Russia in the summer of 1985, Gordievsky had been appointed KGB resident (head of station)