British Spy Dies, Should Have Happened Sooner Says I – IOTW Report

British Spy Dies, Should Have Happened Sooner Says I

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British double agent George Blake, a former MI6 spy who revealed a secret tunnel in Berlin to the Soviet Union during the Cold War and escaped from a London jail in 1966, has died in Moscow at age 98.

“Books have been written about him, films have been made,” Sergei Ivanov, the head of the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, told Russian news agency RIA Novosti on Saturday. “In intelligence he was highly respected and appreciated. [Blake] himself jokingly said: ‘I am a foreign car that has adapted to Russian roads … ‘ Now this foreign car has completed its almost century-old run.” More

BBC epitaph for the MI6 turncoat and ardent communist who betrayed hundreds. Watch

9 Comments on British Spy Dies, Should Have Happened Sooner Says I

  1. Even if Blake had not escaped from a British prison he would have been released in 2003 after serving his sentence for espionage. Then he would have been free to go to Russia and live in honor for the last 17 years anyway. So it’s just a case of different paths, same result.

    IMHO anyone whose spying causes the death of Western agents should be executed, but Britain considers itself too civilized to impose the death penalty for any crime. Pity.

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