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Cold War: Secret Intelligence Service letter to Charles Powell ("HETMAN") [digest of HETMAN's most significant reporting to be passed to the French Government] [declassified Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1647 f98
Editorial comments:

Colin McColl became Director-General of the Secret Intelligence Service ('MI6') in 1989. Documens elsewhere in this file suggest that HETMAN was the British codename for Oleg Gordievsky. Read other documents selected from this file. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: British relations with France, British relations with the Soviet Union, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Security services & intelligence