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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
MOSCOW: The former MI6 agent turned Russian spy George Blake has died aged 98, according to Russian media.The state-owned news agency RIA Novosti said his death was confirmed by Sergei Ivanov, the.
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.