World -renowned spy death – revealed Stig Bergling

One of the world’s most famous double agents has died. Oleg Gordievsky, who was recruited from the Soviet Union to Britain during the Cold War, revealed, among other things, the Swedish spy Stig Bergling.

Gordievsky was considered to be the UK’s most valuable spy in Russian intelligence service ever, the BBC reports. He worked for the Soviet KGB when he was recruited and sent in his many years as a double agent important information to both MI6 and MI5 – which among other things led to 25 Soviet spies that were in the UK being forced to leave the country.

One of his main efforts is considered to have been when he warned in the early 1980s that Moscow has become so paranoid for an imagined nuclear attack that they started preparing to strike first. The information contributed to the leader of the Western world tone down its rhetoric, and the crisis was averted.

In addition, he revealed the protagonist in one of Sweden’s largest spy scandals: Stig Bergling. In 1977, Oleg Gordievsky noticed his British clients that the Soviet Union managed to recruit a spy in Sweden, writes Expressen. Bergling was already suspected, but Gordievsky’s detailed information contributed to the Swedish spy being arrested and brought to trial.

In 1985, however, suspicions were raised against Gordievsky in Moscow, and he escaped with distress and barely an arrest by smuggling across the border to Finland in the luggage compartment on a car.

Oleg Gordievsky turned 86 years old and died in his home in Surrey, England, according to the BBC.