Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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212 • GOLITSYN, ANATOLI


GOLITSYN, ANATOLI.A KGBdefectorwho sought asylum with
theCentral Intelligence Agencyin Helsinki in December 1960,
Major Anatoli Golitsyn was brought to England in 1963 to review
MI5’s files because of the suspicion of high-level penetration of the
Security Service. Codenamedkago, Golitsyn was obliged to return
to the United States in July when news of his presence in London
was reported by theDaily Telegraph. Golitsyn’s belief that MI5 har-
bored a Soviet spy persuaded severalcounterintelligenceexperts at
MI5 and theSecret Intelligence Service, and two in particular,Ar-
thur MartinandStephen de Mowbray, helped edit his bookNew
Lies for Old.


GOOSE. MI5code name for Karl Grosse, a German spy who para-
chuted into Northamptonshire in October 1940 equipped with a Brit-
ish passport in the name of Alfred Phillips and was known totate.
Grosse had arrived with a one-way wireless set and maps of Liver-
pool area. His instructions were to hike about and report on morale
(or as he put it, ‘‘morals’’), roadblocks, and weather conditions. He
was arrested by a farmer within hours of landing and was interro-
gated atCamp 020, where he revealed that he had spent three years
as a student of geology in the United States and was a member of the
Brandenburg Lehr regiment, a military unit closely associated with
theAbwehr. Althoughgooseexpressed his willingness to act as a
double agentand professed himself to be an anti-Nazi who only
wanted to return to America, radio contact could not be established
and he remained confined until the end of the war, having made a
futile attempt to bribe a guard to send a letter to the German embassy
in Dublin.


GORDIEVSKY, OLEG.A careerKGBofficer, Oleg Gordievsky was
recruited as a British agent while he was serving under diplomatic
cover in Copenhagen in 1974. For the next 11 years he supplied his
Secret Intelligence Service(SIS) handlers with large quantities of
information from the First Chief Directorate and from therezident-
urain London, where he was posted in 1982. In May 1985, having
been named therezident-designate, Gordievsky was unexpectedly
summoned home to Moscow and accused of being a spy. He denied
the accusation and resisted his interrogators, who used drugs to ex-

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