# A man described as Britain’s most valuable spy inside Russian intelligence agencies has died in Surrey, aged 86. Oleg Gordievsky was a colonel in the KGB when he passed vital intelligence to Britain’s security and intelligence agencies, MI-5 and MI-6. He lived under police protection since Moscow became suspicious of him in 1985, but was smuggled across the border to Finland before he could be arrested. Queen Elizabeth honoured Gordievsky with the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George in 2007.
Britain’s most valuable Russian spy dies aged 86