George Blake (born Georg Behar, November 11, 1922) is a former British spy who was actually a double agent for the Soviets. November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ...

Biography

Born in Rotterdam of mixed parentage; his mother was Dutch and his father was an Egyptian who was a naturalized British citizen.^{[citation needed]}. He was born as George Behar to one of the eminent Jewish families of Amsterdam. His father passed away when he was 14 and little Behar was sent to a British school in Cairo as this was the will of his father. While he was living there with his relatives, he spent most of his time with his uncle Henri Curiel who was a prominent member of the Communist Party of Egypt and a KGB agent. When he returned to Amsterdam he was a dedicated communist. Rotterdam Location Flag Country The Netherlands Province South Holland Population 604,819 (2005) Coordinates 51° 55 N.; 4° 30 E. Website www. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Coordinates Website www. ... Modern Cairo Cairo (Arabic: ‎ translit: ) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... Henri Curiel (September 13, 1914 - May 4, 1978) was a political activist, founder of a communist organization in Egypt. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for State Security Committee, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ...

Blake was active in the anti-Nazi Dutch resistance under the nom de guerre of Max de Vries. He escaped to London disguised as a monk when the Gestapo tried to capture him. In England, he changed his name to Blake and eventually began to work for the SOE. After some time, he fell in love with an MI6 secretary named Iris Peake -later she went to work in the service of the Queen- and they decided to marry. Unfortunately the eminent "Peake" family wouldn't give its consent for the marriage as Blake was Jewish. The young girl wasn't able to bear the pressure and their relationship ended. Blake was devastated as a result and decided to to take revenge on this "snobbish" English nation which he blamed for the destruction of the love of his life. He went to his uncle and confidant, Henri Curiel, who recruited him for the KGB. The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ... A pseudonym or allonym is a name (sometimes legally adopted, sometimes purely fictitious) used by an individual as an alternative to their birth name. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... A “Monk” is a person who practices asceticism, the conditioning of mind and body in favor of the spirit. ... The Deaths Head emblem similar to Skull and crossbones, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organization initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ...

After World War II he was recruited by MI6 and worked on establishing agent networks in Soviet occupied Eastern Europe. He was sent to serve in the Korean War, and was in Seoul when it was overrun by the North Koreans. During three years as a prisoner of the North Koreans, he converted to Marxism - suggested by some as a result of "brainwashing", although he insists his conversion was voluntary. After his release in 1953, he was sent by MI6 to work as a double agent in Berlin, where he was actually a "triple agent"; he betrayed details of hundreds of MI6 agents to the Soviets. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ... Current division of Europe into five (or more) regions: one definition of Eastern Europe is marked in orange Eastern Europe as a region has several alternative definitions, whereby it can denote: the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Central Europe and Russia. ... Combatants Western Allied/UN combatants: South Korea, United States Communist combatants: North Korea, Peoples Republic of China Strength Note: All figures may vary according to source. ... Seoul (Sŏul|서울) ) is the capital and largest city of South Korea (Republic of Korea). ... North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea. ... Marxism is the philosophy, social theory and political practice based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German socialist philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary. ... Brainwashing or thought reform is the application of coercive techniques to change the beliefs or behavior of one or more people usually for political or religious purposes. ... This article is about the capital city of Germany. ...

In 1959 he was exposed by Polish defector Michael Goleniewski. In 1961 after an in camera trial, he was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker of Waddington; this sentence was said by newspapers to represent one year for each of the agents killed when he betrayed them, although this claim appears to be an invention. It was the longest sentence ever handed down by a British court, until terrorist Nezar Hindawi was sentenced to 45 years for the attempted bombing of an El Al jet. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one political entity in exchange for allegiance to another. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... In camera (Latin: in chamber) is a legal term meaning in secret. It applies to court cases (or portions thereof) to which the public are not admitted. ... The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor, and the presiding judge of Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal, and of the Queens Bench Division of the High Court. ... Hubert Lister Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington PC (May 28, 1900 – September 15, 1972) was a British Judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1958 to 1971. ... Nizar Hindawi (1954) is a Jordanian who was found guilty of attempting to bomb an El Al flight in what became known as the Hindawi Affair. ... The Hindawi Affair was an attempted bombing of an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv in April 1986 and its international repercussions. ... Categories: Airline stubs | Companies of Israel | Transportation in Israel | Airlines of Israel ...

However just five years later he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison with the help of Pat Pottle, Michael Randle and Sean Bourke, three members of the Committee of 100 whom he had met in Egypt two years before. Entrance to Wormwood Scrubs prison Wormwood Scrubs is a British local prison, located on the south of Wormwood Scrubs in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. ... The Committee of 100 is a non-partisan group of prominent Americans of Chinese descent with the mission to pool their strengths and experience to address important issues concerning the Chinese-American community, as well as issues affecting U.S.-China relations. ...

Blake fled to the USSR. He divorced his wife, with whom he had three children, and started a new life. In 1990 he published his autobiography No Other Choice. The book's British publisher had paid him about £60,000 before the government intervened to stop him profiting from sales. This article is about the year. ...

In an interview with NBC News in 1991, Blake said he regretted the deaths of the agents he had betrayed. NBC News Logo NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. Its current president is Steve Capus. ...

As of 2004, he is still living in Moscow, Russia on a KGB pension, and remains a committed Marxist-Leninist. Blake denied being a traitor, insisting that he had never felt British: "To betray, you first have to belong. I never belonged." 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: ) is the capital of Russia and the countrys principal political, economic, financial, educational and transportation center, located on the river Moskva. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for State Security Committee, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ...

References

• The First Directorate by Oleg Kalugin. St. Martins' Press, 1994.