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George Blake, who died last year aged 98, is less well known than his fellow spies educated at Cambridge. He was not recruited by his peer group, he operated alone, he was not part of the Establishment and perhaps, as a result, he was treated more harshly than his fellow traitors. An MI6 officer, apparently recruited by the Russians after being captured in 1950 during the Korean War, he was himself betrayed by a defector, Michael Goleniewski, in 1961. Sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 with the help of two peaceniks and an Irish petty criminal and spent o...

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...