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William Joyce, better known as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ due to his plummy accent, was an ardent fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during WWII.  

John le Carre British spy novelist John le Carre, who died on Dec.14 at the age of 87, and master spy George Blake who died at 98 two weeks later, are forever linked by Cold War intrigue. Blake, a real life British spy who defected to the Soviet Union, was the opposite number of John Le Carre’s fictional character Alec Leamas, who was sent by Britain to Communist East Berlin to pretend to defect. Real-life Blake defected and survived, fictional Leamas died on the Berlin Wall after being betrayed by his own side in le Carre’s novel, “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.”

Master of espionage Michael Jansen The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict. 31 Dec 2020 John le Carre British spy novelist John le Carre, who died on Dec.14 at the age of 87, and master spy George Blake who died at 98 two weeks later, are forever linked by Cold War intrigue. Blake, a real life British spy who defected to the Soviet Union, was the opposite...

George Blake, British spy for Soviet Union, dies in Moscow at 98 December 29, 2020 10:34 am George Blake, a former MI6 officer, enters a car in Moscow, June 28, 2001. (Yuri Martianov/Kommersant Photo/AFP via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — George Blake, a former British intelligence researcher who served as a spy for the Soviet Union for years, has died in Russia. He was 98. Blake, who was born in the Netherlands to a Protestant mother and a Sephardic Jewish father who had fought for Britain in World War I, moved to the United Kingdom during World War II. He was rec...

George Blake obituary Richard Norton-Taylor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Boris Yurchenko/AP George Blake, who has died aged 98, was the most notorious Soviet agent inside Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Interned by the Nazis in the Netherlands, recruited by MI6, then by the KGB after he was captured during the Korean war, unmasked by a defecting Polish intelligence officer and sentenced at the Old Bailey to an unprecedented term in jail, Blake made a spectacular escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison in northwest London. Blake was convicted of spying in...