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==Career==
 
==Career==
Gordon Barrass worked for MI6. In ''[[The Telegraph]]'''s obituary for [[Christopher Curwen]] stated that Barass was MI6's "principal Kremlinologist" and undertook an 80 day debriefing of [[Oleg Gordievsky]].<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10536155/Sir-Christopher-Curwen-obituary.html</ref>
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Gordon Barrass worked for [[MI6]]. In ''[[The Telegraph]]'''s obituary for [[Christopher Curwen]] stated that Barass was MI6's "principal Kremlinologist" and undertook an 80 day debriefing of [[Oleg Gordievsky]].<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10536155/Sir-Christopher-Curwen-obituary.html</ref>
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==

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Person.png Gordon Barrass AmazonRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(journalist, spook)
Gordon Stephen Barrass.jpg
Born5 August 1940
NationalityUK
Parents • James Barrass
• Mary Barrass
Spouse • Alice Cecile Oberg
• Kristen Clarke Lippincott
Interests • cold war
• USSR
• calligraphy
UK spook and author who has written for the Guardian

Gordon Stephen Barrass is a UK spook and author. He has written for the Guardian.

Career

Gordon Barrass worked for MI6. In The Telegraph's obituary for Christopher Curwen stated that Barass was MI6's "principal Kremlinologist" and undertook an 80 day debriefing of Oleg Gordievsky.[1]

Publications

  • The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China (2002)
  • The Great Cold War: A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors (2009)[2]
  • The Great Cold War: A Journey through the Hall of Mirrors (2010 Paper in the Journal of Cold War Studies[3]


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