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Text source BBC Radio 4.
A remarkable interview with the notorious double agent, who recently passed away.
George Blake became a senior MI6 officer - even though he had converted to the Communist cause while held as a prisoner in North Korea.
He photographed vast numbers of classified documents, and by his own estimates betrayed around 500 agents working for the Western powers.
In the late 1980s, the journalist Tom Bower secured the first interview with Blake, in which he freely confessed to betraying his colleagues and described in detail his sensational escape from Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London, and his journey to exile in Moscow.
This radio version was first broadcast in 2009.
A remarkable interview with the notorious double agent, who recently passed away.
George Blake became a senior MI6 officer - even though he had converted to the Communist cause while held as a prisoner in North Korea.
He photographed vast numbers of classified documents, and by his own estimates betrayed around 500 agents working for the Western powers.
In the late 1980s, the journalist Tom Bower secured the first interview with Blake, in which he freely confessed to betraying his colleagues and described in detail his sensational escape from Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London, and his journey to exile in Moscow.
This radio version was first broadcast in 2009.
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, George Blake: The Confession
A remarkable interview with the notorious double agent, first broadcast in 2009
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