MI6 - A Century in the Shadows (Part Two)

The Documentary: Archive 2010 by BBC

Dec 24, 201023:25Society & Culture

The second part in this series describes what went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Former MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting with an agent and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky t...

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