Gordon Corera, veteran security journalist and co-host of The Rest is Classified, joins Morgan Childs to discuss the central figure in his latest book - Vasili Mitrokhin.

Mitrokhin was a KGB archivist who defected to the West in 1992, bringing with him a trove of Russian secrets.

From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs.

Gordon Corera is the author of The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.

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