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GEORGE BLAKE, A famous “mole” in British intelligence who spied for the Soviet KGB during the 1950s before fleeing across the Iron Curtain, has died.
Russian news agencies reported Blake’s death at the age of 98 today.
“The legendary intelligence officer George Blake has passed away today,” a spokesman for Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service told the TASS state news agency.
“He sincerely loved our country and admired our people’s achievements during World War II,” Ivanov added.
A former member of the Dutch resistance during World War II then an agent of the British foreign intelligence service MI6, Blake offered his services to the Soviet Union in the 1950s after witnessing US bombings against the civilian population during the Korean War.
He provided the names of hundreds of MI6 agents to the KGB and revealed the existence of a secret tunnel in East Berlin that was being used to spy on the Soviets.
In 1961, Blake was discovered as a double agent and was sentenced to a record 42 years of imprisonment in England.
Five years later, he broke out of prison using a rope ladder with the help of three cell mates.
After the escape, Blake was smuggled across the Iron Curtain into East Germany and travelled to the Soviet Union, living in Russia until his death.
Blake received a hero’s welcome in Moscow and was awarded the rank of colonel by the Russian intelligence service.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the country to which he dedicated his life, he said he never regretted his actions.
Blake was among the last living British double-agents that the USSR recruited during the Cold War.
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What a great world we live in,those animals need culling,not court
This is vile and a sad reality of wars. Maybe we can get a write up about the rapes happening across Europe, that are liked to migrants?
@Ladude: linked
Are these the very illegal migrants that O Gorman is so concerned about ?
@Mike Cantwell:
If you mean the victims of such atrocities, yes they would have been exactly the kind of people to whom we have a legal obligation to offer protection at the time of this conflict and when they, on the basis of their religion (mostly Muslim) and ethnicity were being subjected to grave human rights violations and war crimes.
As always, we continue to campaign for justice and reparations for victims of such atrocities and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
And when anyone even mentions that migrants are causing a string of sexual assaults in Europe, we are called racist, bigots and what ever else. And women should not be oppressed, but mention anything about Islam oppressing their women and we are called bigots, trump lovers, racists… It’s mind boggling
Good man Colm you have a lot of work ahead of you as the mostly Muslim illegal immigrants cause havoc throughout Europe , in a generation our little Island will have the same problems we see throughout Britain and Europe as the number of Muslims continue to grow here so when we have ” calls ” for Sharia , forced marriages , segregated classes for boys and girls etc etc we can thank people like yourself , everyone in Ireland who is concerned about what’s coming down the tracks needs to read Infidel by Aayn Hirsi Ali otherwise we will end up with our own Dewsbury , Molenbeek or Malmö
@Mike Cantwell: my other comment was deleted for what ever reason. These sjw are actually happy to see the west fall into chaos.
Telling the truth can get you into bother Lad , the looney left have no arguments / facts to justify their idiocy but rely on ” feelings ” , so as Islam gets a foothold in Ireland we will instances of FGM , forced marriages , demands for segregated swimming lessons etc etc , the left will ignore all this and talk about ” understanding ” , diversity and the usual excuses meanwhile Ireland will be divided into ” communities ” that have ruined Britain with every community fighting their corner , Ireland as we know it with its faults will change for the worse and all because those in power did not take sensible decisions re immigration
@Mike Cantwell: we both know the right is without its faults, but the left kept pushing and Proding the right. The right started questioning their logic and pushing and Prodding them self’s, and finding many holes and contradiction in their arguments. Actually many people who were not political at all have become political because of the left dogged determination to show why they should not be in charge of a country.
Yeah the majority of the rapists left and probably came to the UK and Ireland and got away with it.
I hope they’re reading this.
LIved next door to a survivor of the Bosnian war in Western Australia. He used to tell me about his and his wife’s experiences a lot. He ended up being rescued from a camp where the Bosnian Muslims were being held. To his credit, he told me they managed to be at peace and not hold on to any anger but he said he’ll never erase the cruelty he witnessed. All for what?
Colm O’Gorman – the very definition of irrelevance.
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