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George Blake (né Behar; 11 November 1922 – 26 December 2020) was a spy with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a communist and decided to work for the MGB while a prisoner during the Korean War.
George Blake, British diplomat and spy for the Soviet Union. He held various positions in the British government, including a stint with MI-6. After his arrest in 1961, he admitted being a double agent. Blake was sentenced to 42 years in prison, but he escaped in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union.
Dec 26, 2020 · George Blake, a notorious British double agent who betrayed Cold War secrets and Western spies to the Soviet Union in the 1950s and, after being caught, staged a spectacular escape...
Dec 30, 2020 · George Blake, the former British spy-turned-KGB double agent during the height of the Cold War, was buried Wednesday in Moscow, honored as a Russian national hero.
Dec 26, 2020 · George Blake, the former MI6 officer and one of the Cold War's most infamous double agents, has died aged 98, Russian media has reported. Over nine years, the Soviet spy handed over information...
Dec 26, 2020 · George Blake, the last in a line of British spies who secretly worked for the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, has died in Russia, aged 98.
Jan 29, 2021 · When the 98-year-old double agent George Blake died in Moscow on Boxing Day, my biography of him was long since ready. Blake was a one-man Netflix series, whose life tracked many of the...