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by Binoy Kampmark / December 29th, 2020 Filling the espionage ranks with legions of the non-belonging comes with its share of risk.  The process is counter-intuitive, putting stock in skill and aptitude above the potential compromise of loyalty and divergence.  Eventually, such a recruit might find a set of closely guarded principles. The son of a Sephardic Jew and Dutch Protestant might well count as excellent material for British intelligence but George Behar ended up condemned in Britain and the toast of the now defunct Soviet Union.  George Blake, as he came to be known, along with tha...

Monday, 28 December 2020, 2:52 pm Filling the espionage ranks with legions of the non-belonging comes with its share of risk. The process is counter-intuitive, putting stock in skill and aptitude above the potential compromise of loyalty and divergence. Eventually, such a recruit might find a set of closely guarded principles. The son of a Sephardic Jew and Dutch Protestant might well count as excellent material for British intelligence but George Behar ended up condemned in Britain and the toast of the now defunct Soviet Union. George Blake, as he came to be known, along with that other gre...

GEORGE BLAKE 1922 - 2020 Moscow: George Blake, a British intelligence official who betrayed closely guarded secrets to the Soviets and was among the most damaging traitors of the Cold War, then made a daring escape from a London prison in 1966 and lived out his days as a national hero in Moscow, has died at 98. Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service announced his death on December 26 but provided no further details. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Blake as a "brilliant professional" and a man of "remarkable courage". Kim Philby (left) and George Blake talk over a bottle of wine in Bla...

George Blake, notorious Cold War double agent who helped Soviets, dies at 98 By T. Rees Shapiro The Washington Post,Updated December 26, 2020, 4:08 p.m. Email to a Friend George Blake, a former British spy who doubled as a Soviet agent, gestured during a news conference in Moscow in 1992. Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, has died in Russia.Boris Yurchenko/Associated Press George Blake, a British intelligence official who betrayed closely guarded secrets to the Soviets and was among the most damaging traitors of the Cold War, then ...

George Blake, a British intelligence official who betrayed closely guarded secrets to the Soviets and was among the most damaging traitors of the Cold War, then made a daring escape from a London prison in 1966 and lived out his days as a national hero in Moscow, has died at 98. Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, known as SVR, announced his death yesterday but provided no further details. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Blake as a "brilliant professional" and a man of "remarkable courage". News accounts from the 1960s described Blake as a "Super Spy" and perhaps one secret to his...