Vladimir Kuzichkin – codename Redwood – was a Russian superspy operating in Iran who secretly switched to the West in the hope that doctors there would find a cure for his sexual impotence. In yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, best-selling author Ben Macintyre described the astonishing insights into the KGB he handed over. In this final extract from his book, he tells the gripping story of his escape to the UK under the noses of the KGB and the Ayatollah’s Revolutionary Guard.
After six months, the Redwood files were bulging, with intelligence flooding in so fast the translators and analysts in MI6’s
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