George Blake, the Brit Double Agent And Traitor Whose Information Led To Deaths Of 100s Of UK Spies In Bid To Come Home

Adam Helliker at the British newspaper the Mirror offers a piece on British spy and traitor George Blake wanting to leave Russia, the country he defected to, and return to the UK.

 Living quietly in a small house in a pine forest not far from Moscow is a notorious traitor whom many in Britain may have assumed died years ago.

Yet George Blake is still alive, although his failing health may mean he won't reach his 97th birthday this year.

Few in this country are likely to mourn the fate of this half-blind old man when reminded that during the Cold War he gave the KGB the names of several hundred British agents, most of them living behind the Iron Curtain - ensuring their execution.

Now a rumour has spread among the small circle of Russians who keep in touch with Blake that lately the old traitor become rather misty-eyed about England and has expressed a desire to make one last visit here.

It is a fanciful notion that is unlikely to be fulfilled.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brit-traitor-whose-information-led-14140548 

Revealed: Grim Fate Of The MI6 Agents Betrayed By Soviet Spy George Blake

Tom Parfitt and Justin Huggler at the British newspaper the Telegraph report on the fate of the British agents betrayed by George Blake.

He is the traitorous master spy who betrayed scores of British agents to the KGB in one of the greatest Soviet coups of the Cold War.

As a mole inside MI6, George Blake is known to have passed thousands of top-secret documents to Moscow – but the fates of the people he exposed have been shrouded for decades in rumour and half-truth.
 

Now, for the first time, the specific punishments suffered by individual victims of Blake's duplicity can be revealed.
 

New research shows that a group of six MI6 agents who Blake identified to the KGB were imprisoned for up to 17 years inside East Germany, serving time in jails notorious for torture and psychological intimidation of inmates. One is now believed to have been taken to Moscow and executed.
 

The details of their fate were uncovered by George Carey, a British filmmaker, who trawled through archives in Berlin, including those kept by the feared East German secret police, the Stasi, which worked in tandem with the KGB.
 

The findings are presented in a new film by Mr Carey called Masterspy of Moscow.

Blake, 92, defected to the Soviet Union after escaping Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 and still lives in Russia, where he is feted as a hero by Vladimir Putin, the president, and other KGB veterans. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11472573/Revealed-Grim-fate-of-the-MI6-agents-betrayed-by-George-Blake.html 

George Blake, the MI6 Spy Who Betrayed Up To 40 British Agents And Defected To Russia, Says He has No Regrets

 

Vladimir Putin, Russia's president former KGB agent, likes to trot out the memories of the Cold War spies like Kim Philby and honor them as heroes.

One such Cold War spy, 90-year George Blake, is still alive and resides in Putin's Russia.

Exiled former master spy and traitor George Blake, whose betrayal of British agents to the KGB is said to have cost any lives, claims the 'happiest years' of his life are being spent in Putin-controlled Russia.

In a rare interview marking his 90th birthday, the former MI6 officer recalled sharing cocktails, including martinis - favored by James Bond - with fellow spies outside Moscow in their KGB retirement.

Nearly five decades after he escaped from a British jail and was smuggled to east Berlin in a camper van in one of the classic cloak-and-dagger stories of the 20th century, Blake lives quietly in the Moscow suburbs with his wife Ida on a pension from the KGB.

'These are the happiest years of my life, and the most peaceful, ' Blake, who goes by the Russian name Georgy Ivanovich, said in the interview, published in the Russian government newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta.

... There was no sign of regret or remorse for his duplicity and he appeared content with the life he forged after being exposed with fellow traitors Donald Maclean and Kim Philby as among the most 'significant' spies of the Cold War years.

You can also read the Associated Press piece on Blake in the Philadelphia Inquirer via the below link:

http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-07/news/34974566_1_british-prison-soviet-spy-double-agent