Picture No | 10694524 |
Date | April 1953 |
Description | George Blake |
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MI6 agent George Blake pictured with his mother on his return to Britain after internment in North Korea during the Korean War. Later posted to Berlin, Blake would subsequently be exposed as a double agent and was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment in 1961. Escaping in 1966, he fled to Moscow.
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Source | Illustrated London News 13 May 1961 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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