George Blake (* 11 November 1922 in Rotterdam as George Behar) is a former British secret agent, who was obviously as a double agent also for the Soviet Union active as a feeler gauge.

Blake was born as George Behar in Rotterdam as a son of an Netherlands-Egyptian pair, that in the Netherlands resistance was active and worked finally also for SOE, a branch of the British secret service, which itself with covered actions busy. After the Second World War he was recruited by the MI6 and enlisted agents for the British secret service in of the Soviet Union during the cold war in Eastern Europe. Later the MI6 sent it to Korea, where it was 1950 in Seoul, when the south was run over during the Korea war by the military of the People's Republic of Korea. Three years he spent in North Korea, which let him become obvious the communist - understood of some as brain laundry, although he insisted on being voluntarily to communism converted. After its release by the north Koreans it worked completely healthy. London sent it as a double agent to Berlin, where it was actually active as a three-fold agent. He betrayed hundred details of MI6 agent to the Soviets.

1959 were exposed Blake by the Polish defector Michael Goleniewski. 1961 he was condemned by a court under exclusion of the public to 42 years detention, which was interpreted agent killed of some newspapers as one year detention per. It was the longest, ever from a British court imposed, imprisonment. When it after five years detention became clear, who it was not gotten a chance on an agent exchange, it strove for an outbreak possibility from the Wormwood Scrubs prison, which then by the assistance of Pat Pottle, Michael Randle and Sean Bourke, three members of a circle of 100 persons, whom it also succeeded to it met there, finally. Pat Pottle was a prominent activist against the British atomic armament, which in Wormwood Scrubs a detention had served and which regarded judgement for Blakes betrayal a "death penalty" covered of 42 years according to own statements without sympathy as, while Sean Bourke was an Irish Republican Army activist, which likewise served a detention in Wormwood Scrubs had.

It succeeded to smuggle Pottle for the preparation of Blakes outbreak, a Walkie Talkie into the prison, at that time so modern High tech equipment, which neither police, still prison administration over something similar ordered. Unnoticed by its attendants Blake informed itself with its Befreiern lying on its plank bed, fit on a Sunday an opportunity rained, in which its fellow prisoners as well as the attendants participated in a film demonstration, climbed off unnoticed from a window and waited with Walkie Talkie on the hazy-rainy day at the wall, until Pottle threw from the exterior a tinkered Strickleiter strengthened with cord needles to him over the 7 m high outside wall. After Blake had climbed on the wall, he jumped down from there, whereby he hurt himself at the face and wrist. Pottle drove the temporarily nearly unconscious Blake with a car to a hiding place, of where he brought him to a physician, who supplied him.

Randle continued to transport it then with its family in a camping bus hidden at night over a ferry to Belgium and to to the German domestic border, where Blake set off alone into the GDR. Allegedly was its former Soviet guidance leadership purely coincidentally just at this time there. Blake arrived into the USSR, left themselves from its wife, with whom he had witnessed together three children, separates and began a new life.

1990 published Blake an autobiography with the title "NO OTHER Choice" (no other choice). Its British publisher had already paid it 60,000, before the government prevented him to profit from further sales to.

Blake still lives in Moscow of a KGB pension and remains an admitting communist. Since still a warrant of arrest exists in Great Britain against it, it was arrested with a return to Great Britain and would have to serve its remaining sentence. It denies, a traitor to be and insists on as a Britisher to have never felt: "Over too, one would amount to must feel once pertinent only. I felt never me pertinent."

see also: Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, John Cairncross, Melita Norwood, Profumo affair

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