By Robert D. McFadden George Blake, a notorious British double agent who betrayed Cold War secrets and Western spies to the Soviet Union in the 1950s and, after being caught, staged a spectacular ...

George Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union and passed some of the most coveted Western secrets to Moscow, has died in Russia. He was 98.

SPY George Blake is best remembered for betraying British forces by defecting to the KGB. He died in December 2020 and left behind his Soviet-born wife. But who was she and what do we know about her?

George Blake was less famous than Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. Yet he ranked in importance with any member of the “Cambridge ring”. Unlike the latter, moreover, he retained ...

The involvement of a female agent in a Russian espionage ring is a “world away from the classic spy case” such as George Blake, her barrister has said. Katrin Ivanova, 33, is due to be ...

Inmate 455 was no ordinary prisoner. George Blake, the 43-year-old ex-MI6 spy turned Soviet agent, had been unmasked in 1961 following a tip-off from a Russian defector. At the Old Bailey that May ...

Who is George Blake's wife Ida? Blake, convicted of betraying British MI6 agents to the Soviet Union, had completed just five years of a 42-year sentence before escaping and fleeing to Russia.