Spies, Secrets and Archives

📅 Wednesday 2 July 2025, 19:30 🗣 Talk 📍 Online

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Join Gordon Corera for the inside scoop on a career reporting on the world of secrets and spies.

As Security Correspondent for BBC News, over the past 20 years, Gordon Corera has reported on issues relating to national security and intelligence. He has covered some of the world’s biggest spy stories ranging from the Edward Snowden leaks through to the poisonings of Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko.

Join him as he discusses insights from his career covering the changing world of British intelligence through to his latest work investigating the secrets of the KGB archives and the remarkable story of KGB archivist, Vasili Mitrokhin.

📅 Wednesday 2 July 2025

Starts at 19:30

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title: Gordon Corera
description: Gordon Corera is co-host of The Rest is Classified podcast which delves into the world of espionage. He continues to work as an analyst covering the latest developments for BBC News. He is also the author of a series of non-fiction books including Russians Among Us, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies and The Secret Pigeon Service.
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