Chuck

Almost always is. So I say we take a break and we come back and talk about one of the most thrilling moments in MI6 history.

Almost always is. So I say we take a break and we come back and talk about one of the most thrilling moments in MI6 history.

Yes, that's exactly who I'm talking about, a KGB colonel.

Yes, that's exactly who I'm talking about, a KGB colonel.

Yes, that's exactly who I'm talking about, a KGB colonel.

Yeah, the cowabunga lifestyle.

Yeah, the cowabunga lifestyle.

Yeah, the cowabunga lifestyle.

I don't know where they'd fall in the MICE acronym, money, ideology, coercion, ego, taste.

I don't know where they'd fall in the MICE acronym, money, ideology, coercion, ego, taste.

I don't know where they'd fall in the MICE acronym, money, ideology, coercion, ego, taste.

I'm not sure. But yes, he definitely turned. But he was caught. He was found out. So he became the station chief or working out of the embassy as a KGB agent. in London. So he was able to actually kind of easily pass secrets to the Brits because he was there already.

I'm not sure. But yes, he definitely turned. But he was caught. He was found out. So he became the station chief or working out of the embassy as a KGB agent. in London. So he was able to actually kind of easily pass secrets to the Brits because he was there already.

I'm not sure. But yes, he definitely turned. But he was caught. He was found out. So he became the station chief or working out of the embassy as a KGB agent. in London. So he was able to actually kind of easily pass secrets to the Brits because he was there already.

He was found out by Aldrich Ames, who was a famous American trader who spied for the Soviets in, I think, the 80s or maybe even into the 90s. And he told them about Gordievsky spying for the Brits. Um, Gordievsky was not immediately jailed, which is weird. He was definitely taken back to Moscow and held like basically under surveillance, but he was going to be jailed. He was going to be executed.

He was found out by Aldrich Ames, who was a famous American trader who spied for the Soviets in, I think, the 80s or maybe even into the 90s. And he told them about Gordievsky spying for the Brits. Um, Gordievsky was not immediately jailed, which is weird. He was definitely taken back to Moscow and held like basically under surveillance, but he was going to be jailed. He was going to be executed.

He was found out by Aldrich Ames, who was a famous American trader who spied for the Soviets in, I think, the 80s or maybe even into the 90s. And he told them about Gordievsky spying for the Brits. Um, Gordievsky was not immediately jailed, which is weird. He was definitely taken back to Moscow and held like basically under surveillance, but he was going to be jailed. He was going to be executed.

So he started, um, what had been planned seven years before and named Operation Pimlico, uh, And by standing in a Moscow bakery or outside of a Moscow bakery holding a plastic Safeway bag, he was signaling MI6, like, get me out of here right now.

So he started, um, what had been planned seven years before and named Operation Pimlico, uh, And by standing in a Moscow bakery or outside of a Moscow bakery holding a plastic Safeway bag, he was signaling MI6, like, get me out of here right now.

So he started, um, what had been planned seven years before and named Operation Pimlico, uh, And by standing in a Moscow bakery or outside of a Moscow bakery holding a plastic Safeway bag, he was signaling MI6, like, get me out of here right now.