George Blake dead, the English 007 who spied for the Soviet KGB during the Cold War leaves at 98

Died at 98 George blake, the former British secret agent who during the Cold War acted as a spy for him Soviet KGB. The Russian media reported it. For nine years, Blake handed over information to the Soviets that led to the betrayal of at least 40 agents of British intelligence in Eastern Europe, recalls Bbc. He was imprisoned a London in 1960 but escaped in 1966 and fled to Moscow. “He had a genuine love for our country,” was the comment from the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR. Gave a invaluable contribution to ensure the strategic parity and maintain world peace, “said the head of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin in a statement, expressing their condolences for the agent who died today in Moscow.

As the Bbc, Blake was born in 1922 in Netherlands, in Rotterdam, as George Behar. His father, however, had fought with the British Army during World War I and had acquired citizenship; Blake then participated in the Dutch resistance during WWII, then fled to Gibraltar. And later he was asked to join intelligence. In an interview with the British newspaper in 1990, Blake said that he believed there was betrayed more than 500 western agents. His downfall came when a 007 of Poland, Michael Goleniewski, defected to the West, revealing the existence of a Soviet mole in British intelligence. Blake was called to London, arrested and sentenced in 1961 to 42 years in prison. However, he managed to escape in 1966 and escape the UK in a van. After reaching Berlino east, spent the rest of his life in the Soviet Union and then in Russia, where he was honored as a hero.

As a double agent, among the most important British secret information that passed to the USSR was that of a western floor to intercept the Soviet communications from an underground tunnel in East Berlin. In a statement issued in 2017 via SVR services, Blake said Russia had become his “second homelandAnd he thanked the SVR agents for their friendship and understanding. He also said that Russian intelligence agents had a mission, namely, “to save the world in a situation where the danger of a nuclear war and the consequent self-destruction of humanity had been put back on the agenda by irresponsible politicians ”. Also in 2017, the former agent made it clear that he had decided change part after seeing massacred civilians “From the American military machine” in the bombings to North Korea.