Former British spy reveals how he survived being interrogated by the KGB in an East German Stasi jail after being captured behind the Iron Curtain in 1959
A former Cold War spy from Britain has revealed the horror of being held hostage in an East German prison and interrogated by the KGB.
Ex-agent Douglas Boyd was confronted by the Soviet security agency while enduring solitary confinement as a prisoner in a Stasi interrogation prison behind the Iron Curtain in 1959.
He feared for his life as many prisoners were drugged, committed suicide or died of dysentery in captivity because of the barbaric treatment of the guards.
KGB officers tried desperately to get him to break his cover - of a run-of-the-mill clerk - and offered him a bogus deal in order to get him out of the prison so they could take him to a Gulag.
Soviet Union President Nikita Khrushchev intended to use him as a high profile political prisoner to highlight the 'swamp' of British spies in Berlin.
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