The last chapter describes the final leg of the escape through Finland and Norway to England and summarizes Gordievsky’s first several months living in England. Chapter 14 outlines, step by step, the implementation of Operation PIMLICO, with all its twists and turns, from Friday morning to the next day’s rendezvous at the turnout near the Finnish border. In Chapter 13, the author explains how Gordievsky gave the signal to implement Operation PIMLICO and describes the preparations in Moscow and London to set it into action on Friday and Saturday, July 19 and 20, 1985. When they tried to get him to confess, he refused, and a “cat and mouse” game ensued, as the chapter title alludes to. Chapter 12 details his return and accusation by his superiors that he was a spy. The third and last section of the book covers Gordievsky’s return to Moscow, ostensibly for his formal promotion, and then, after discovering that the KGB was onto him, his escape to London via Operation PIMLICO. Chapter 11 describes how the CIA uncovered Gordievsky’s identity, Aldrich Ames began spying for the KGB, and Gordievsky was promoted to head of station in London. In Chapter 10, Macintyre outlines how Gordievsky influenced Cold War history in the mid-1980s by informing the West of Moscow’s paranoid reaction to NATO war games in 1983 and by advising Margaret Thatcher on protocol for two significant events: her attending the funeral of Yuri Andropov in Moscow and her hosting Mikhail Gorbachev in London. Chapter 9 reveals how Gordievsky helped MI5 (Britain’s domestic intelligence service) root out an agent attempting to become a spy for the KGB.
In Chapter 8, Macintyre details Operation Ryan-the Soviet program to look for evidence of the US planning a preemptive nuclear strike-and explains how MI6 provided Gordievsky with harmless information to put in his KGB reports in an effort to boost his productivity and thus his career. In addition, this chapter introduces American CIA agent Aldrich Ames, who later became a spy for the KGB. Chapter 7 begins the second part of the book and tells of Gordievsky’s life and work in London, as well as his colleagues at the KGB station.
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