George Blake, known as a double agent who was acting as a British spy but actually provided confidential information to the former Soviet Union, died in his exile in Moscow on the 26th.
I was 98 years old.
According to Russia's state-owned Tass news agency, George Blake, who had been providing confidential information to the former Soviet Union for many years while belonging to a British intelligence agency, died on the 26th at the age of 98.
Mr. Blake was detained when the Korean War broke out while he was stationed in South Korea as a British diplomat and North Korea occupied Seoul.
At that time, Mr. Blake turned to communism after witnessing the bombing of North Korea by the US military.
After that, he returned to Japan due to the suspension of the Korean War, but while belonging to a British intelligence agency, he acted as a double spy of the former Soviet Union, and the British and the United States dug underground in Berlin to eavesdrop on Soviet communications. We provided the Soviet side with information on their existence and British spies operating in Eastern Europe.
In 1961, a double agent was discovered and arrested and sentenced to 42 years in prison in England, but he escaped from prison and went into exile in the Soviet Union, after which he lived in Moscow.
In Russia after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, he was regarded as a hero and was awarded many medals, and President Putin also paid tribute to Mr. Blake's death on the 26th.