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.
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, known as SVR, announced his death yesterday but provided no further details. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Blake as a brilliant professional and a man of remarkable courage .
News accounts from the 1960s described Blake as a Super Spy and perhaps one secret to his successful treachery was that he hid in plain sight. As one of his friends, a Salvation Army executive, told a reporter at the time, Blake resembled a typically blasé, bowler-hatted, rolled umbrella government official .
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