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Former British double agent George Blake, who worked as a spy for the Soviet KGB in the 1950s and then fled to Moscow, has died at the age of 98, Russian news agencies reported today.
“Today, the legendary George Blake no longer exists. He sincerely loved our country, admired the achievements of our people during World War II,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sergei Ivanov told Sputnik.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, after fleeing the Netherlands at the start of WWII, Blake served in the British Navy until 1948, when he was hired by the Foreign Office as a deputy consul in Seoul.
It is in the capital of South Korea where the British agent learned about the ideas of communism.
After his repatriation in 1953, he was assigned to the British office in Berlin, where he had access to information from the British secret services.
In 1959 he began working for MI-6 and was sent to the Middle East to study Arabic in Lebanon.
After his arrest in April 1961, he admitted to acting as a dual agent for the Soviet KGB, having handed over to the service all the important documents he had in his possession since 1953. Sentenced to 42 years in prison in May 1961, he escaped from prison Wormwood Scrubs in October 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union.
He lived in Russia until the end of his life.
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