Oleg Lyalin: The defected KGB agent who saved MI5 and changed the Cold War
September 8, 2025
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as posted by the channel“He was able to present himself to MI5 in early 1971 and give them a sense of exactly what the plots were that were sort of unfolding.”
Author of The Defector, Richard Kerbaj, explains the story of Oleg Lyalin’s cooperation with MI5, which led to the expulsion of more than 100 Soviet spies, who plotted against Britain in the Cold War.
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