The defector : the untold story of the KGB agent who changed the Cold War and saved MI5 / Richard Kerbaj.

Kerbaj, Richard, author

London : Blink, 2025.

304 pages ; 24 cm

'The Defector' is the untold account of how, in 1971, the defection of a KGB saboteur in London led to the expulsion of more than a hundred Soviet 'diplomats' from the UK. Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, the book tells a startling story of a Soviet mission to plant fake Kremlin agents within British and American intelligence services, the paranoia that ensued, and how the actions of a genuine turncoat, the former KGB officer Oleg Lyalin, and the secrets he revealed resulted to one of the most dramatic and pivotal moments in the Cold War.

9781789468489 (hbk)

327.1247
327.1247 KER

English

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