George Blake
11th November 1922
to 26th December 2020
The famous super spy George Blake has died. Born George
Behar in the
Netherlands
in 1922, he moved to
England
after World War II and joined the intelligence agency SIS. However during his
posting to
Korea
he witnessed the brutal war of the early 1950's and its horrors converted him to
Marxism. His cover was blown in 1961 and he was imprisoned. However he broke
out of jail in 1966 in one of the most notorious prison escapes in history. He
then was trafficked to
Russia,
then the
Soviet Union, where he was granted political
asylum. He lived there for the rest of his life. He was never able to travel
home to
Britain
because he would be arrested and returned to prison the moment he arrived.
Along with the
Cambridge spies; Kim
Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross and Donald Maclean, he is the most infamous
double agent in history. The reason he has come to my attention is because I
made a HPANWO TV film about him, see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/01/spies-of-london-part-1.html.
On Boxing Day 2020 the Russian news outlet RIA Novosti announced that Blake had
died. He was ninety-eight years old and, like James Randi, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/10/james-randi-dies.html,
passed away from age-related conditions. President Vladmir Putin paid tribute
to him, calling him "a brilliant professional of special vitality and
courage" who made an "invaluable contribution to ensuring strategic
parity and maintaining peace on the planet". However in this documentary
Blake clearly is nervous about Putin. Blake's asylum in modern
Russia
was getting precarious at the time, see here in the last scene:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LjUeYtyNVzbK/.
Blake's deception during the Cold War led to the exposure of many western
agents operating inside the Soviet bloc. Unlike Blake, who was treated with
humanity and simply locked away in prison, these agents were tortured until
they gave up their information and then shot.
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