She served with distinction in Stockholm and in Helsinki where, as the SIS Head of Station, she was involved in the successful exfiltration of the former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky.
Gordievsky was appointed Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for "services to the security of the United Kingdom" in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours (in the Diplomatic List).
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The character of Nikolai Gorodov, a highly placed KGB defector in Frederick Forsyth's The Deceiver, appears to be partly based on Oleg Gordievsky"The Price of the Bride".
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In Gordievsky's opinion, the culprit was a UK-based Russian business associate who had supplied him with pills, which he said were the sedative Xanax, purportedly for insomnia; he refused to identify the associate, saying British authorities had advised against it.
Oleg Kalugin | Oleg Gazmanov | Oleg Mityaev | Oleg Kagan | Oleg Deripaska | Oleg Menshikov | Oleg Maisenberg | Oleg Kulik | Oleg Caetani | Oleg Yefremov | Oleg Strizhenov | Oleg Grabar | Oleg Goncharenko | Oleg Firsov | Oleg Vyugin | Oleg Timchenko | Oleg Tabakov | Oleg Pungin | Oleg Popov | Oleg Ostapenko | Oleg Maslennikov | Oleg Malov | Oleg Litvinenko | Oleg Khlevniuk | Oleg Kashin | Oleg I of Ryazan | Oleg Igorevich Marichev | Oleg Gordievsky | Oleg D. Jefimenko | Oleg Aleksandrovich Smirnov |