In 1985, a KGB colonel climbed into the trunk of a British car… while Soviet guards and dogs stood a few feet away.
His name was Oleg Gordievsky. For more than a decade he had been secretly working for MI6. When Moscow recalled him, he knew the trap was closing. British intelligence had already prepared an emergency escape — hidden in invisible ink inside a book.
He reached a remote road near the Finnish border. Two diplomatic cars stopped. He had about one minute to get in the trunk.
If they opened it, he was finished.
This is the true story of Operation Pimlico — one of the most daring Cold War extractions ever carried out.
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