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Never Belonging: George Blake s Spy Exploits

Monday, 28 December 2020, 2:52 pm Filling the espionage ranks with legions of the non-belonging comes with its share of risk. The process is counter-intuitive, putting stock in skill and aptitude above the potential compromise of loyalty and divergence. Eventually, such a recruit might find a set of closely guarded principles. The son of a Sephardic Jew and Dutch Protestant might well count as excellent material for British intelligence but George Behar ended up condemned in Britain and the toast of the now defunct Soviet Union. George Blake, as he came to be known, along with that other great British export of betrayal, Kim Philby, was always

Double agent George Blake dies in Moscow

George Blake obituary

George Blake obituary Richard Norton-Taylor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Boris Yurchenko/AP George Blake, who has died aged 98, was the most notorious Soviet agent inside Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Interned by the Nazis in the Netherlands, recruited by MI6, then by the KGB after he was captured during the Korean war, unmasked by a defecting Polish intelligence officer and sentenced at the Old Bailey to an unprecedented term in jail, Blake made a spectacular escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison in northwest London. Blake was convicted of spying in 1961 after a trial conducted mainly behind closed doors. In defiance of convention, Lord Parker, the lord chief justice, handed down maximum consecutive, rather than concurrent, sentences, sending Blake down for 42 years. An astonishing exchange that only came to light only in 2016 may help to explain the severity of the sentence. Parker phoned Harold Macmillan, the prime minister, to cons

SLURPING TEA TO THE END IN A RENT-FREE DACHA, TRAITOR WHO HANKERED FOR LITTLE SLICES OF ENGLAND FLED JAIL BYOPE LADDER

BY the end, the old traitor had lived in Russia longer than he lived in the West. George Blake, the former British spy who died yesterday aged 98, had once hankered after what he called ‘little slices’ of England. Above all, Christmas pudding and whipped cream. Following Communism’s collapse these luxuries became less elusive, but there was one thing that his ever-grateful Russian spymasters could never conjure: the family he left behind more.

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