Valerie Pettit

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Valerie Pettit, OBE (13 June 1929 – 28 December 2019) was a British MI6 operative known for smuggling Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, a Soviet double agent, out of the Soviet Union. She devised and led an elaborate escape plan called Operation Pimlico, which extracted Gordievsky from the USSR after he was exposed by Aldrich Ames, an American double agent, in 1985. Gordievsky was considered the most valuable secret service mole in the KGB during Pettit's time.

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