Maurice Oldfield, SIS chief who was
called back from retirement in 1979 to
reorganize the security apparatus in
northern Ireland, only to retire again
soon afterward when it was discovered
that he had concealed his homosexuality
for years.Oleg Gordievsky, SIS’s star agent inside the
KGB, who supplied his handlers with the
Kremlin’s secrets for more than a dozen years
before his exfiltration from Moscow in 1986.