Defector’s family arrive in UK
- Title
- Defector’s family arrive in UK
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 6 Sep 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:00:35
- Description
- Stephanie West reports from Heathrow Airport on the arrival of KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky’s wife and children who have just landed on British soil 6 years after him having been allowed to leave Moscow. The KGB had forced her to divorce him. Wife Leila Gordievsky reacts on arrival.
- Contributors
- Stephanie West; Leila Gordievsky
- Keywords
- Heathrow Airport; USSR; Spies; Oleg Gordievsky
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