Cold War double agent George Blake dies at 98 BY JORDAN WILLIAMS
12/26/20
Former British intelligence officer George Blake, who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, has died in Russia at the age of 98.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service announced his death in a statement Saturday, The Associated Press reported. The statement didn’t give details about his death.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Blake as a “brilliant professional” and a man of “remarkable courage,” according to the AP.
Blake’s case was one of the most notorious during the Cold War. Britain claims that he exposed the identities of hundreds of Western agents, some of whom were ultimately executed, Reuters noted.
After he was discovered, Blake was sentenced to 42 years in Wormwood Scrubs prison in London in 1961. Five years later, he escaped with the help of other inmates and activists and made it to East Berlin undetected. He spent the rest of his life in the Soviet Union, according to the BBC.
Blake was born in the Netherlands in 1922 and moved to England in the early 1940s. He joined the British armed forces and then the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, in 1944.
Blake was captured by North Korean soldiers in 1950 and secretly became a communist during the three years he was imprisoned, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
In an interview in 1991 while in Moscow, Blake said he believed the world was headed toward communism.
"It was an ideal which, if it could have been achieved, would have been well worth it," he told Reuters at the time.
Denton Young
Maybe a nice education camp in Siberia where the only media available is Palmer Report and Rachel Maddow until the poison of reich wingism is permanently purged from their brains...
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