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Richard Gott (Richard Willoughby Gott) was born on 28 October, 1938 in Aston Tirrold, Berkshire Downs, England, UK, is a British journalist and historian (born 1938). Discover Richard Gott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 28 October, 1938
Birthday 28 October
Birthplace Aston Tirrold, Berkshire Downs, England, UK
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1938

Richard Willoughby Gott (born 28 October 1938) is a British journalist and historian.

A former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the British newspaper The Guardian, he is known for his radical politics and a connection to Che Guevara.

1952

From the years 1952 ("Short Half") to 1957, Gott was educated at Winchester College, a 14th-century independent school for boys in Winchester, Hampshire, where he boarded at House G (Sergeant's).

1958

Then, from 1958 to 1961, he attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford at the University of Oxford, as an Exhibitioner, where he obtained a B.A. in Modern History.

After studying history at Oxford University, Gott worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

1960

In the 1960s he worked at the University of Chile, where he wrote Guerrilla Movements in Latin America.

1963

In November 1963, working as a freelance journalist for The Guardian in Cuba, Gott was invited to a celebration of the revolution party at the Soviet Union embassy in Havana.

During the evening, a group of invited journalists who were chatting in the garden were joined by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara for a few hours, who answered their questions.

1966

In January 1966, Gott was a candidate in the 1966 Kingston upon Hull North by-election for the "Radical Alliance", running on a platform which stressed opposition to the Vietnam War; he polled only 253 votes.

1967

In Bolivia in 1967, Gott identified Guevara's dead body after the failure of Guevara's Bolivian campaign.

He was the only one in the country who had met Guevara.

1970

Contact with the KGB resumed in the 1970s under the codename RON, when he accepted Soviet-paid trips to Vienna, Nicosia and Athens, and lunched with Russians.

1980

One issue was whether during the 1980s, the KGB would have thought Gott's information worth £10,000.

Phillip Knightley, biographer of the KGB agent Kim Philby, highlighted the limited value of outsider Gott as compared to insider Aldrich Ames; Knightley concluded that Gott would have been lucky to get his bus fare back.

Rupert Allason pointed out valuable activities such as talent-spotting and finding people who did have highly classified access.

1981

In 1981 the BBC's Alasdair Milne and Aubrey Singer sought to appoint Gott to the position of editor of its cultural magazine, The Listener, but as Gott failed to obtain security clearance from MI5, his file was marked and Russell Twisk was appointed instead.

Gott was then appointed features editor for The Guardian.

1983

One of his handlers was Igor Titov, who was expelled by the UK in 1983 for "activities incompatible with his diplomatic status" (espionage), but who left while still denying that he was a spy.

1994

Gott resigned from The Guardian in 1994, after senior KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky accused him of having been a Soviet "agent of influence", a tag Gott at the time denied.

Gott was born in Aston Tirrold in the Berkshire Downs in South East England, and is the son of Constance Mary Moon and Arthur Francis Evelyn Gott.

In 1994, Gott admitted KGB contacts beginning in 1964 (while working for the Royal Institute of International Affairs), and to having taken Soviet gifts, which he called "red gold".

After his period as features editor, Gott became literary editor of The Guardian, but resigned from the latter post in December 1994 after it was alleged in The Spectator that he had been an "agent of influence" for the KGB, claims which he rejected, arguing that "Like many other journalists, diplomats and politicians, I lunched with Russians during the cold war".

He asserted that his resignation was "a debt of honour to my paper, not an admission of guilt", because his failure to inform his editor of three trips abroad to meet with KGB officials at their expense had caused embarrassment to the paper during its investigation of Jonathan Aitken.

The source of the allegation that Gott had been an agent was KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky.

In his resignation letter, Gott admitted: "I took red gold, even if it was only in the form of expenses for myself and my partner. That, in the circumstances, was culpable stupidity, though at the time it seemed more like an enjoyable joke".