Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor

A KGB family. Anton and Olga Gordievsky, with their two younger children, Marina and Oleg (around age ten).

The Gordievsky siblings. Vasili, Marina, and Oleg, in about 1955.

Moscow Institute of International Relations track team. Gordievsky, far left; Stanislaw Standa Kaplan, second from the right. Kaplan, a future Czechoslovakian intelligence officer, would defect to the West and play a key role in the recruitment of his old university friend.

Long-distance runner training on the shores of the Black Sea.

Oleg Gordievsky in his student days at Moscows elite Institute of International Relations, where he was first recruited by the KGB.

Anton Gordievsky in the KGB uniform he habitually wore. The Party is always right, he insisted.

Vasili Gordievsky, a highly successful KGB illegal, who operated undercover in Europe and Africa, and drank himself to death at the age of thirty-nine.

The Lubyanka. The KGB headquarters known as the Center; part prison, part archive, and the nerve center of Soviet intelligence.

Oleg Gordievsky in KGB uniform: an ambitious, loyal, and highly trained officer.

The construction of the Berlin Wall, August 1961. The spectacle of the physical barrier being erected between East and West made a profound impression on the twenty-two-year-old Gordievsky.

The Prague Spring, 1968. A lone protestor defies a Soviet tank. Gordievsky was appalled when 200,000 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the reform movement.

Covert surveillance photographs of Gordievsky taken by the Danish intelligence service (PET) during his postings to Copenhagen. For years, these were the only images available to MI6 of the Russian intelligence officer code-named SUNBEAM.

Playing badminton doubles with an unidentified partner in Copenhagen. The KGB officer was first directly approached by MI6 while on the badminton court.

On the Baltic coast with Mikhail Lyubimov, the KGB rezident in Copenhagen and Gordievskys close friend and patron.

Traveling in Denmark with Lyubimov (standing); his wife, Tamara (left); and Gordievskys first wife, Yelena (right).

Scandinavian spies (next three images).

Arne Treholt (left), rising star of the Norwegian Labor Party, with his KGB handler Gennadi the Crocodile Titov (center), on the way to one of their fifty-nine lunches.

Stig Bergling, the Swedish policeman and security service officer who became a Soviet spy in 1973.

Gunvor Galtung Haavik, the inconspicuous secretary at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs who spied for the KGB for more than thirty years under the code name GRETA. Seen here immediately after her arrest in 1977.

A handwritten message from Ames to his KGB handlers, arranging a dead drop of intelligence information.

Aldrich Ames at around the time he joined the CIA. He would eventually betray the entire CIA spy network inside the Soviet Union, sending many agents to their deaths.

Ames with his second wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy. She was a breath of fresh air, said Ames. She was also demanding, extravagant, and extremely expensive.

Top: Sergey Chuvakhin, the Russian arms control specialist selected by Ames as his first point of contact in the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC. I did it for the money, he later said.

Bottom: Colonel Viktor Cherkashin, chief of counterintelligence at the Soviet embassy and Amess first KGB spymaster.

Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the First Chief Directorate and later head of the KGB.