True Spies Debrief: Gordon Corera on Vasili Mitrokhin

Gordon Corera, veteran security journalist and co-host of The Rest is Classified, joins Morgan Childs to discuss the central figure in his latest book - Vasili Mitrokhin. Mitrokhin was a KGB archivist who defected to the West in 1992, bringing with him a trove of Russian secrets. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Gordon Corera is the author of The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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True Spies Debrief: Gordon Corera on Vasili Mitrokhin is an episode from True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics by SPYSCAPE.

This episode is 43:54 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2026.

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