Summary

Chapter 14 begins on Friday, July 19th, and Gordievsky prepared for his escape. Meanwhile, Price and Brown assembled in a hotel room in Helsinki. The two of them, along with a few other M16 and PET members, laid out the specifics of the operation and the roles for each team. In the event of a successful extraction, the Danes' car, that is the one planning to carry Leila and one child, would make a call to the P5 team in Century House and indicate that the fishing holiday had been a success.

At 3 p.m. in the British Embassy, Ascott was informed that one of his military experts who was returning from Finland was stopped and searched at the border despite having diplomatic plates. This was a breach in diplomatic immunity, and came at the most concerning moment given the PIMLICO operation. Ascot drafted...