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The heart of the legendary Soviet intelligence officer George Blake, who defected from MI6 to the Kremlin, stopped in the 99th year of his life.
RIA Novosti reports on this.
Information about the death of the 98-year-old defector was officially confirmed by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
“He died of old age, the heart stopped”, – emphasized in the press service.
As you know, George Blake, who worked for MI6, crossed over to the Soviet Union in the 1950s and began cooperating with the KGB. It was the defector who informed the Kremlin on London’s intention to tunnel the communication lines of the Soviet forces group in Germany (Operation Berlin Tunnel – ed.).
After World War II, George Blake was sent to Korea, where he was captured. After three years in North Korea, the spy became a “communist.” MI6 leadership sent him to Berlin on mission, where he became a “triple agent” working for the KGB.
In 1959, he was exposed by the Polish defector Michal Golenevsky, who began collaborating with the CIA. In 1961 a closed-door trial was held, by decision of which George Blake was sentenced to 42 years in prison for treason.
Four years later, he managed to escape from prison and financed the escape. English director Tony Richardson, who won an Oscar in 1964. George Blake was secretly transported across the English Channel by overnight ferry to Belgium and then to the GDR border.
After escaping, the British defector was transported to the Soviet Union, divorced his ex-wife, with whom he had three children, and began a new life. George Blake lived in Moscow, even taught at the SVR Academy and held the rank of colonel in the KGB of the USSR.
Before we said that in the West, Vladimir Putin’s regime was diagnosed.
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