Gordon Corera

2 weeks ago | express.co.uk | Gordon Corera

Melita Norwood outside her home in Southeast London after being exposed as a KGB spy (Image: PA)In the autumn of 1992, a man called Vasili Mitrokhin fled Russia with a bag full of secrets. He had worked as a senior archivist for the KGB for much of the Cold War and had spent years meticulously copying down the Russian spy service’s deepest secrets, before finally being exfiltrated by MI6 in a daring operation.

3 weeks ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Gordon Corera

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West. How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover and deep amongst the files.

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Gordon Corera

Even with decades of experience between them, the two middle-aged spies were on edge. They were about to attempt something that had never been done before in the history of MI6. Instead of smuggling out one Russian spy to a new life in Britain – the more usual scenario – they were going to extract an entire family. In this case, not only a retired KGB colonel, but also his wife, his frail mother-in-law and his adult son, who relied on a wheelchair. So two people who were effectively invalids.

2 months ago | waterstones.com | Shaun Walker |Gordon Corera

Join us for an evening with international correspondent for the Guardian and author Shaun Walker, introducing his newest book The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West. In 2010, two decades after the Cold War had ended, ten Russian spies were arrested in America, having hidden their true identities from their friends, neighbours and even their children.

Sep 7, 2024 | yahoo.com | Gordon Corera |Jemma Crew

Gordon Corera - Security correspondent and Jemma Crew - BBC NewsSeptember 7, 2024 at 7:55 AM·3 min readThe international world order is “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War”, the heads of the UK and US foreign intelligence services have warned. The chiefs of MI6 and the CIA also said both countries stand together in "resisting an assertive Russia and Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine".