George Blake released

Five civilians released by North Korea in the first prisoner exchange of the Korean War, pictured in Berlin on their arrival from Moscow: George Blake, former British Vice-Consul, Korea; Bishop A.G.Cooper, Anglican Bishop of Korea; Commissioner Lord, Salvation Army; Norman Owen, Legation Clerk, and Mgr. Quinlan, Irish missionary priest. ~~George Blake, an MI6 agent, was later sent to work in Berlin to recruit Soviet officers as double agents. Having made contact with the KGB, Blake himself became a Soviet agent. Exposed in 1961 he was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment but escaped in 1966 and fled to Moscow

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