British intelligence chiefs at MI6 'were so convinced that former Labour leader Michael Foot was a paid Soviet informant they were ready to tell the QUEEN about his KGB links to stop him from becoming Prime Minister'.
Intelligence chiefs were so concerned about double agent Oleg Gordievsky's (inset) claim that Michael Foot (main) was a KGB informant that they were prepared to tell the Queen if he was set to become Britain's prime minister. Documents, published in The Spy and the Traitor, show that MI6 thought the evidence presented by Mr Gordievsky was strong enough to pass on to the Queen. In a 1982 debriefing, the former agent allegedly said the KGB had paid Mr Foot the equivalent of £37,000 in today’s money, according to the new book. Even though he was supposedly paid by the Soviets, Mr Gordievsky said that the politician was not a ‘spy or conscious agent’. Instead he was allegedly a contact who was paid for ‘disinformation purposes’, meaning he might have been fed false information. Mail.
