Is It Appropriate To View Cmg-Decorated Oleg Gordievsky As A Hero ...

[ichkeria]

... or are all spies to be viewed as traitors, no matter they are "ours" or "theirs"?

Something that has always interested me ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/11/russian-spies-britain-oleg-gordievsky

[pdq1]

I wonder how many spies we have in Moscow. We though carry out our surveillance in very clever ways. We even stores tapes etc in what look like boulders to confuse them.

[pdq1]

More about the story that was uncovered.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/british-official-admits-using-fake-rock-to-spy-on-russia-1.756184

[anotheoldgit]

They are only traitors if they are spying on their own country, on behalf of their countries enemies.

[ichkeria]

AOG, don't all spies do that? In one way or another?

I'm an admirer of Mr Gordievsky by the way.