Saturday, March 21, 2015

A very cosmopolitan spy ~ Simon Kuper

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©Luis Grañena
One issue must haunt him: the several hundred British agents in eastern Europe whom he betrayed. He says the KGB assured him the agents wouldn’t be executed. Carey’s film reveals that at least one probably was. Others spent many years in jail. On this question Blake, a gentle person, seems to live in denial. It probably works for him. I left his dacha feeling he will die happy.

George Blake meant well but wreaked evil. He would probably say: that’s fate.