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Spies, lies, and exile : the extraordinary story of Russian double agent George Blake / Simon Kuper.

by Kuper, Simon, author.

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New York : The New Press, 2021.

Blake, George, 1922-2020.

Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.

Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Espionage, Soviet.

9781620973752 (hardcover) :

1620973758 (hardcover) :

ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency MI6 and was stationed in Seoul. Taken prisoner after the North Korean army overran his post in 1950, Blake later returned to England to a heros welcome, carrying a dark secret: while in a communist prison camp in North Korea, he had secretly switched sides to the KGB. As a Soviet double agent, Blake betrayed uncounted western spying operations--including the storied Berlin Tunnel, the most expensive covert project ever undertaken by the CIA and MI6. Blake exposed hundreds of western agents, forty of whom were likely executed. After his unmasking and arrest, he received, for that time, the longest sentence in modern British history. Much of Blake's career existed inside the hall of mirrors that was the Cold War, especially following his sensational escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison. Veteran journalist Simon Kuper tracked Blake to his dacha outside Moscow, where the aging spy agreed to be interviewed for this unprecedented account of Cold War espionage. Following the master spys death in Moscow at age ninety-eight on December 26, 2020, Kuper is finally able to set the record straight."-- Provided by publisher.

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