With steely determination, Margaret Thatcher sent a task force to re-take the Falklands, or the Malvinas, from Argentina in 1982. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev described her as 'a woman of ...

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War. Oleg Gordievsky at Buckingham Palace after ...

Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 1983 papers were opened ... on a thaw in East-West relations (before the era of Mr Gorbachev) and a “partly heretical” note sent from her personal ...

His intelligence was subsequently crucial in guiding Margaret Thatcher in her early contacts with the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, whose ascent to power helped bring the Cold War to a close.

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.

Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev, 1991 (Getty) Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.

Oleg Gordievsky’s reports helped Margaret Thatcher prepare for her first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev (left) (Martin Keene/PA) That MI6 was prepared to go to such lengths to get him out was a ...

Margaret Thatcher's time as prime minister might not ... to the piece", along with her meeting former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Phibbs said they also hoped to portray the former prime ...

With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev changed all that - and redirected the course of the 20th century. Alongside Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Gorbachev was a key protagonist in ...

Oleg Gordievsky receives the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George from Queen Elizabeth II ...