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The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake by Roger Hermiston
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The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake by Roger Hermiston:
On 3 May 1961, after a
trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was
sentenced to an unprecedented forty-two years in jail.
At the
time few details of his crimes were made known. By his own confession he
was a Soviet spy and rumours later circulated that his actions had
endangered British agents, but the reasons for such a severe punishment
were never revealed. To the public, Blake was simply the greatest
traitor of the Cold War. Yet, as Roger Hermiston reveals in this
thrilling new biography, his story touches not only the depths of
treachery, but also the heights of heroism.
In WWII, recruited
by British Intelligence, he quickly earned an exemplary reputation and
was entrusted with building up the Service's networks behind the Iron
Curtain. And, following a posting to Seoul, he also suffered for his
adopted country, when captured by North Korean soldiers at the height of
their brutal war with the South.
By the time of his release in
1953, Blake was a hero, one of the Service's brightest and best
officers. But unbeknownst to SIS they were harbouring a mole. Week after
week, year after year, Blake was assiduously gathering all the
important documents he could lay his hands on and passing them to the
KGB.
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