It's Friday, April 11, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, I promised you one big story.

Here it is. It is an obituary, and it starts on page one of the New York Times, the front page.

Here's the headline, Soviet agent, Western Mole, and Global Rescuer.

It's about the death of an individual's name is Oleg Gordievsky.

Board 1938 died in 2025, an incredible story. Let me just tell you, it's more incredible with every

turn of the page. So what's the bottom line? He was a Soviet diplomat. He was a Soviet spy.

He was the top KGB agent in London. And then he defected to the West in 1985, and it was revealed that

for many of those years, crucially, he had been a double agent. He was the chief KGB agent for the Soviet

Union in London, but he wasn't working for Moscow. He was working for London. The KGB considered him

one of their top agents, but he was actually working for Western nations during the Cold War,

as the New York Times said, quote, making him one of the most highly placed Western spies during

the Cold War. Now here's something interesting, a little suspicious.

He was found dead in his home southwest of London on March the 4th at age 86.

Why is that a little suspicious? It's at least a little suspicious because the death sentence

against him, placed against him by the Soviet Union, had never been lifted

when it comes to Vladimir Putin's Russia. And Vladimir Putin was a KGB agent, and it goes without

saying that if you are a KGB agent, you have a very long memory. Clay Risen, reporting for the

Times tells us, quote, the local police who discovered his body said that they did not believe foul play was involved, but that an investigation was ongoing, end quote.

This is an even more interesting story than you might first think.

In 1974, British intelligence turned Oleg Gordievsky into a Western spy. They basically turned him into a double agent.

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