Oleg Gordijevskij, en av de viktigste KGB-agenter som har arbeidet for Vesten, frykter for sitt liv, selv om han bor i Storbritannia. Han tror russiske myndigheter kan komme til å prøve seg, etter at de drepte Alexandr Litvinenko.

«Until five years ago I felt very safe living here,» said Gordievsky, who escaped to Britain from the Soviet Union in 1985. «But not now. They will kill me here. If they try to kill me, it will be in Britain.»

Gordievsky, speaking on Desert Island Discs today on Radio 4, adds: «I now feel they [the Russians] can find some way to damage me.»

Gordievsky, 69, who lives in Surrey, told The Sunday Times this weekend that a month after the death of Litvinenko he asked the police for more protection.
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Gordievsky, who was honoured by the Queen for services to British security last year, made some of his most important contributions in 1982, when working as the KGB resident-designate in London. His work was credited with helping avert a nuclear confrontation over the 1983 Nato exercise Able Archer.

Gorijevskij ble beordret tilbake til Moskva i 1985, men greide å flykte. Han fikk sendt sos-signal til britene, som fikk ham ut.

KGB defector fears he will be next Alexander Litvinenko