Jewish KGB Spy Dies of Old Age

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Notorious British traitor George Blake who claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent during the Cold War dies in Moscow aged 98

Will Stewart | Daily Mail (UK) | 26 December 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9088751/Notorious-British-traitor-George-Blake-dies-Moscow-aged-98.html

Excerpt: Notorious British traitor George Blake has died aged 98 half a century after he claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent during the Cold War, Russian foreign intelligence announced today.

The 98-year-old spy had been living in Moscow since he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966.

Blake was sentenced to a record 42-year jail sentence in London in 1961 for spilling MI6 secrets to the Soviet Union, sending dozens of Western agents to their deaths.

He went on the run after climbing over the London prison's wall in 1966, soon after England won the World Cup.

Later he crossed into East Berlin and into the hands of his grateful Soviet spymasters.

He is considered a hero of the modern Russian SVR - which replaced the KGB. In Soviet times, Dutch-born Blake was awarded with the Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner. Rossiyskaya Gazeta said his latest honour from Moscow was as 'patriarch of Russian foreign intelligence.' In Russian he was known as Colonel Georgiy Ivanovich Bleyk.

To the end Blake insisted he had 'no regrets' and showed no remorse.

It is known that at least 40 British agents were executed in Russia as a result of his treachery.

He insisted that he did not regard himself as a traitor, having never 'felt' British.

'To betray, you first have to belong. I never belonged,' he said.

George Blake was born (((George Behar))) in Rotterdam on November 11 1922. His father, a Turkish Jew, was a naturalised British citizen, which made his son a British citizen.

As a teenager, he was a runner for the anti-Nazi Dutch resistance. He was briefly interned, but released because of his age. He was due to be reinterned on his 18th birthday, but escaped to London disguised as a monk. He then changed his name to Blake.

He joined the Royal Navy and after the war  recruited ex-German officers to acquire intelligence on Soviet military activities.

He said later: 'I did this very well, apparently, because I was then selected to be sent to Cambridge to learn Russian. That is what I did and, in a way, it shaped another stage in my development towards communism, towards my desire to work for the Soviet Union.'

Blake's next major assignment for British intelligence was in Korea during the Korean War.

He was based in the British embassy in Seoul but was captured by the invading North Koreans.

During his three-year captivity, he read the works of Karl Max and converted to Marxism.

On Blake's 95th birthday in 2017, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Sergei Naryshkin congratulated him, saying the spy had been a role model for the agency's officers.

Blake will always be regarded by Britain and the West in general as a man who, through his treachery, did more damage than any other person of his generation to the security of the free world.

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