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tract a confession. Although under heavy surveillance, Gordievsky

was able to make contact with SIS and was exfiltrated in a British

embassy car toFinland. In his absence he was sentenced to death.

Gordievsky was responsible for tipping the British off to the exis-

tence of Arne Treholt, the Sovietmolein the Norwegian Ministry of

Foreign Affairs, and toMichael Bettaney, who attempted to pass

MI5secrets to therezident,Arkadi Gouk. Gordievsky has often

speculated about how the KGB learned of his duplicity, and it has

been widely assumed that he was compromised by theCentral Intel-

ligence Agency’s Aldrich Ames, who revealed that a source code-

namedae/ticklehad penetrated the KGB inDenmarkand London.

Resettled under a new identity near London, Gordievsky was di-

vorced by his wife Leila, subsequently married an English school

matron, and wrote his memoirs,Last Stop Execution.

GORSKY, ANATOLI.Having worked at the Soviet embassy since
1936 as a technician without diplomatic cover with the alias Anatoli
Gromov, Anatoli Gorsky was appointed the NKVDrezidentin Lon-
don in 1938 following the withdrawal of Grigori Grafpen. Gorsky
inherited the management of the networks built up byTheodore
MallyandArnold Deutsch. Between February and December 1940
he was recalled to Moscow by Lavrenti Beria, who mistakenly be-
lieved therezidenturahad been penetrated, but upon his return he
supervisedJohn Cairncross,Guy Burgess,Anthony Blunt,and
Kim Philby.
In July 1944 Gorsky was transferred to Washington, D.C., to main-
tain contact withDonald Maclean, leaving Boris Krotov as his re-
placement in London. According toOleg Gordievsky, Gorsky’s
father had been a police officer under the czar, and because he had
always described him as a schoolteacher, he was dismissed in 1953
when this discrepancy was discovered as he was about to be ap-
pointed head of the First (American) Department of the First Chief
Directorate. Gorsky was eventually identified toMI5by Blunt in
1964 as his contact whom he knew only ashenry.

GOUK, ARKADI.The KGBrezidentin London in 1983, Arkadi
Gouk consulted his subordinate,Oleg Gordievsky, when he received
a collection of authentic secretMI5documents fromMichael Betta-