How Did Double Agent Oleg Gordievsky Travel To the Soviet Border? #history #spies #espionage

In the summer of 1985, Double Agent Oleg Gordievsky had just asked MI6 to help him escape the Soviet Union. Per the plan, he left his home for his regular morning run, then evaded his KGB shadows, boarding a train to Leningrad then another to Vyborg, near the Soviet-Finnish border. British diplomats met him at the station. They had just raced through the town to elude their KGB tails. The diplomats drove a unique Ford Sierra that had a special feature, a hidden compartment in the trunk. The space was so small that they gave him a sedative to make it tolerable. The KGB had gone into a frenzy when Gordievsky had lost his tail that morning in Moscow. Their frustration increased as they searched for him in Moscow, then across the country. But the diplomats, with the carefully hidden Gordievsky, made their way to the Finnish border and freedom. Could they get there in time?

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