But he would later offer a simpler explanation for his actions: ‘I did it for the money.’ “Twelve days before Gordievsky was due to take over as rezident, Aldrich Ames offered his services to the KGB,” Mr. Unbeknown to the CIA at the time, one of their own, CIA counterintelligence officer Aldrich Ames, was a spy for the KGB. The CIA was not told who the Brit spy was, so they launched an investigation to learn who the valuable British asset was. His intelligence was so valuable that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan were given briefings on Gordievsky’s insights into the KGB and Soviet political leadership. His disillusionment became total after the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 and he decided to spy for the British. The Soviet police state paled in comparison to the freedom of the West. Macintyre points out in his outstanding book, Gordievsky became disillusioned with Soviet communism while posted in Copenhagen.
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