Gordon Corera: The Spy in the Archive

Gordon Corera has spent over two decades covering intelligence, national security, cybersecurity, and risk. As the BBC's former Security Correspondent, he reported from all over the world, explaining the complex worlds of espionage, terrorism and geopolitics, and is the only journalist to have interviewed serving heads of both the CIA and MI6. And as the current co-host of the popular The Rest is Classified podcast, he has access to some of the most secretive organisations and agencies in the world and an uncanny ability to make complex, sometimes troubling information relevant, accessible, and entertaining.

The author of several books, including The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6, and The Russians Among Us, his latest title, The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB, tells the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world. As the in-house archivist for the KGB, the secrets he was exposed to inside its walls turned him first into a dissident and then a spy, a traitor to his country but a man determined to expose the truth about the dark forces that had subverted Russia, forces still at work in the country today.

Categories: Non-fiction, Politics & Society

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