PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
RICHARD GOTT AND THE GUARDIAN (12 December 1994)

That this House congratulates the Spectator, The Times and Sunday Times for their part in exposing Richard Gott of the Guardian as a KGB agent of influence at the height of the Cold War; notes that such agents were not meant to be spies passing Western secrets to Moscow, but propagandists feeding Moscow disinformation to the West; views their behaviour as treacherous and subversive, though not illegal in peacetime; believes that they deserve full public exposure, even if they cannot be prosecuted; and accordingly calls on the security service to stop trying to obstruct Oleg Gordievsky, who identified the KGB's British agents of influence nearly a decade ago, in his efforts to expose these people once and for all.

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Sir Edward Leigh (Conservative)