"I'm often asked whether MI6 authorized this book. Whether they, you know, colluded with it. They didn't ... But, they didn't stop me from writing it. They didn't stop me from writing it in the way that I wanted to. Because I interviewed every one of the MI6 officers who ran Oleg [Gordievsky], over these dozen years, and they're all still alive, and they've all signed The Official Secrets Act which makes it, and what they did, illegal. They shouldn't have been talking to me." --Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss his new book The Spy and the Traitor with Michelle Shephard.