"Soviet double agent Vladimir Kuzichkin agreed to help MI6 on one condition - that they should help him spice up his love life
In the book Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy, author Ben Macintyre tells how six months earlier MI6 had posted a new agent, Ian McCredie (pictured), to the British embassy in Tehran
McCredie was unaware of the KGB coup plot until, on the morning of October 1st 1981, Kuzichkin emerged from the Soviet embassy and strode across the road, unsolicited, to inform British diplomats he was ready to switch sides."
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