Oleg Gordievsky [SEP] educated at
where in addition to espionage skills, he mastered his expertise in German, and he also learnt to speak Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. On completion of his studies, he joined the foreign service where he was posted to East Berlin in August 1961, just prior to completion of the Berlin Wall. The building of the wall appalled him, and he became disillusioned with the Soviet system. After spending a year in Berlin, he returned to Moscow. He joined the KGB in 1963 and was posted to the Soviet embassy in
Oleg Gordievsky
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB and KGB resident-designate ("rezident") and bureau chief in London, who was a secret agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1974 to 1985.
Early career.
The son of an NKVD officer, he was born in 1938. He proved an excellent student at school, where he learnt to speak German. He studied at a premium Moscow University, and later undertook NKVD training,