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The carriage was not very crowded, and the well-dressed, bearded 33-year-old Briton stood out from the rest of the passengers, all East German citizens who came to their homes.
AND George Blake was going to a house that cold winter night in 1958It just wasn’t their home, but a safe haven for the KGB.
His driver, Sergei Alexandrovich Kondratsov, was waiting for him in a car outside the train station where they met once a month.
On leaving, the British MI6 agent received a gust of cold wind on his face, while at the same time the snow fell gently, having already formed a white powder.
He got into the car and within minutes he was with his KGB “partner” enjoying the warmth of the fireplace and radiators. When he took a microfilm out of his pocket and handed it to the Russian, he smiled and opened a bottle of vodka.
Blake preferred martini, but in East Germany, these luxuries only existed in some very good hotels. He chatted for a long time with his pilot before he returned him to the station to catch the train back.
Back to West BerlinThe next day he was on MI6 again, looking for information on Soviet spies, without anyone imagining that George was a double agent. And the British paid dearly for that.
From North Korea to Berlin
The son of a Dutch and Egyptian Jew with British citizenship, Blake was a restless young man who, in his twenties, was engulfed in flames. Second World War.
He soon joined the Dutch resistance in the role of courier and in 1943 managed to reach England, where he enlisted in the British Navy.
With what he had achieved a year later, he was admitted to MI6 and after the end of the war he was briefly transferred to Hamburg.
When in 1948 he went to Seoul, his mission was to collect information on communist North Korea, China and the eastern countries of the USSR.
The Korean War found him there and when the North Korean army occupied the city in 1950 he was arrested and imprisoned for three years. And he was in prison when he read the “Chapter” of Karl Marx, who embraced communist ideals and decided to change camp.
In a secret meeting, so that the other British detainees wouldn’t notice, Blake met with a high-ranking KGB official and the deal was struck. Now it would work for them.
When he was released he returned to Great Britain, where he remained for two years before making the next transfer in 1955 to MI6 station in West Berlin. There where began providing Western services to Soviet agents and companies without the slightest regret for the next six years.
Arrest and escape
His action resulted in the arrest of five hundred officers and the execution of forty-two of them on charges of espionage or treason.
The damage was enormous to MI6 and probably would have continued if in 1961 a Polish intelligence official in his country had not surrendered to the West.
During your deposit to CIA agents Mikhail Goleniewski “gave” Blake to Americans who was in charge of informing MI6 immediately.
The shock to the British was enormous, but they did not rush to move so that Blake would not suspect anything and a few weeks later they called him for a briefing in London.
As soon as his plane landed, the double agent was stopped by a ladder in the toilet and took three days to “break” and give a full testimony of his works.
He was sentenced to forty-two years in prison, the same agents who were executed for exposing them to the KGB, the longest British court ever issued. on the charge of treason.
He remained in Wormwood Scrubs Prison until the evening of October 22, 1966, when, thanks to a daring scheme by three former prisoners, he had met.
He escaped while the entire prison was watching the week’s standard movie screening and was shortly afterwards in a “safe” house.
The dacha and the pension!
It was a fact that he could not stay there forever and his three friends decided to take him to East Germany in a specially designed caravan.
After they passed from Dover to Calais crossed northern Europe to Berlin and the eastern part of the city, where the Soviets were notified of the arrival of their hero.
Blake was transferred to Moscow, where he was honored for his actions and promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the KGB.
The British were furious at the man’s cinematic escape that caused irreparable damage to their spy network, but they could do nothing.
His wife could have divorced him, but Blake remarried a Russian woman and had a son, Misa.
They gave him a country house for senior officials of the USSR outside of Moscow, where he lived happily ever after when he died at the age of 98 after retiring from the KGB.
In an interview he gave a few years ago, he categorically denied that he was a traitor, emphatically emphasizing: “To betray something you have to belong somewhere. I never felt like I belonged to Britain. “
In the last years of his life he lost his sight but never faith in Marx, who anointed him as the spy who did not return, but escaped into the cold.
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