At 1.30am on a night in 1971 that was busy with Soho revellers, police officers pulled over a “wobbly” driver who was drunkenly making his way down Tottenham Court Road.

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Behind the wheel of the Hillman saloon was an inebriated Oleg Lyalin, who shouted at police “you cannot talk to me….I’m a KGB officer” as the cuffs were put on.

The PCs - well accustomed to off-the-wall statements from Soho’s drunks - brushed off the statement and pushed on with the arrest.

However Lyalin’s extraordinary claim was not only true, but the in

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