The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. 'The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carre The Spy and The Traitor, Ben Macintyre ( paperback 2019) £10.99 The Spy and the Traitor : The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War.
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