'Art Of Betrayal': A History Of MI6 That Reads Like A Spy Novel
On MI6's successes
"I wanted to try and ... not just talk about the failures and the betrayals but also reflect some of the successes. ... There were two Russian intelligence officers who were turned and who basically became agents for MI6 and, in one case, MI6 and the CIA. So one of them was Oleg Penkovsky, who was a Russian military intelligence officer in the early Cold War. ... It's very interesting, because it's one of those cases where you can point to the way in which intelligence made a difference to policy. His intelligence made it right up to the Oval Office, to President Kennedy, helped shape some of his decision-makings and helped him stand firm against Khrushchev at various points because of what he was getting from Penkovsky."
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