by Binoy Kampmark / December 29th, 2020
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 convinced that to authentically betray, you had to belong. That belonging came in loyalty to the Soviet Union. As Russian President Vladimir Putin declared solemnly on Blake’s passing this month, “The memory of this legendary person will be preserved forever in our hearts.”
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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
GEORGE BLAKE 1922 - 2020
Moscow: George Blake, a British intelligence official who betrayed closely guarded secrets to the Soviets and was among the most damaging traitors of the Cold War, then made a daring escape from a London prison in 1966 and lived out his days as a national hero in Moscow, has died at 98.
Russia s Foreign Intelligence Service announced his death on December 26 but provided no further details. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Blake as a brilliant professional and a man of remarkable courage .
Kim Philby (left) and George Blake talk over a bottle of wine in Blake s garden in Soviet Russia, 1979. Blake was the last survivor of the group of infamous British turncoats of the cold war era.
George Blake, notorious Cold War double agent who helped Soviets, dies at 98
By T. Rees Shapiro The Washington Post,Updated December 26, 2020, 4:08 p.m.
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George Blake, a former British spy who doubled as a Soviet agent, gestured during a news conference in Moscow in 1992. Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, has died in Russia.Boris Yurchenko/Associated Press
George Blake, a British intelligence official who betrayed closely guarded secrets to the Soviets and was among the most damaging traitors of the Cold War, then made a daring escape from a London prison in 1966 and lived out his days as a national hero in Moscow, has died at 98.
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