The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | The Pressure Cooker | 2
The Spy Who
Wondery
4.6 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Oleg Lyalin is now compromised. To survive, he must now find a way to maintain the fictions of his multiple lives. But when his messy love life spirals out of control, Moscow sends in a KGB investigator to uncover what’s really going on in London.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can binge full seasons of the Spy Who early and add free on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. |
| 0:15.2 | March 1971, Fulham, West London, five months before Lellin's arrest. |
| 0:21.6 | In the kitchen of an MI5 safe house, Tony Brooks tries to ignore the noise of the headboard, |
| 0:28.6 | banging against the wall of the bedroom next door. |
| 0:32.6 | Brooks is a middle-aged MI5 officer with a neatly trimmed beard. His latest assignment is to handle Oleg Lelyan, |
| 0:40.3 | MI5's new man inside the KGB, |
| 0:44.3 | and it's a job that also requires him to facilitate Lellin's infidelities. |
| 0:51.3 | The noise coming from the bedroom stops. Brooks sighs with relief |
| 0:57.0 | and readies the reel-to-reel tape recorder on the kitchen table. |
| 1:02.0 | Lelen emerges from the bedroom. |
| 1:05.0 | His blonde secretary, Irina Tepliehova, follows. |
| 1:10.0 | Her tender smile switches to obvious dislike on seeing Brooks. |
| 1:14.6 | Lellen moves to embrace her. |
| 1:17.6 | She pulls away and stalks out. |
| 1:20.6 | Brooks turns to Lellon. |
| 1:23.6 | Right, shall we start? |
| 1:26.6 | It's several weeks since Leland was turned by MI5. |
| 1:30.3 | He didn't do it for ideological reasons. |
| 1:34.3 | He did it because MI5 gathered photographic evidence of his affair with Tebliakova |
| 1:39.3 | and threatened to expose their adultery. |
| 1:42.3 | Now, Lelin gets to continue his affair in this MI5 flat |
| 1:48.0 | in return for weekly debriefing sessions. |
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