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  George Blake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Blake (born Georg Behar, November 11, 1922) is a former British spy who was actually a double agent for the Soviets.
Blake was active in the anti-Nazi Dutch resistance as nom de guerre Max de Vries.
Blake was devastated as a result and decide to to take revenge from this "snobbish" English nation which he blamed for the destruction of the love of his life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Blake   (649 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: George Blake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George Blake: As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.
George Blake: Now, I must make it clear that for several years these Vienna operations have been going, and the material obtained from those taps, which was being processed in London, was then analyzed and compiled into monthly intelligence reports of about fifty pages, sometimes thirty, sometimes sixty.
George Blake: The point is that once you're in that situation, which I found myself, I had by then been working for the KGB for several years, one just had to go on with it.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Blake   (1851 words)

  
 George Blake - Wikipedia
Blake wurde als Georg Behar in Rotterdam als Sohn eines niederländisch-ägyptischen Paares geboren, der im niederländischen Widerstand aktiv war und arbeitete schließlich auch für SOE, einem Zweig des britischen Geheimdienstes, der sich mit verdeckten Aktionen beschäftigte.
Blake gelangte in die UdSSR, ließ sich von seiner Frau, mit der er zusammen drei Kinder gezeugt hatte, scheiden und begann ein neues Leben.
Blake lebt nach wie vor in Moskau von einer KGB-Pension und bleibt ein bekennender Kommunist.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Blake   (566 words)

  
 Spy celebrates 80th birthday in Russia - smh.com.au
George Blake conducts a masterclass for trainee spies at a school of the FSB (formerly KGB) in Vornezh, 600 kilometres from Moscow.
Blake was one of a generation of British intelligence officers with a deep intellectual attraction to communism who spied for the KGB.
Blake was born in the Netherlands to a Jewish father and Dutch mother.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/13/1037080790433.html   (419 words)

  
 RED FILES: Secret Victories of the KGB - George Blake Interview
George Blake: I met Lonsdale very early on in my sentence, one of the first days that I was in Wormwood Scrubbs, due to a bureaucratic mix up.
George Blake: I sometimes suspect that certain periods of their career she was sort of the leading person.
George Blake: Yes, because I think it is never wrong to give your life to a noble ideal, and to a noble experiment, even if it doesn't succeed.
www.pbs.org /redfiles/kgb/deep/interv/k_int_george_blake.htm   (8546 words)

  
 Blake & Fleshman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George Blake was born on 17 Jan 1802 in Virginia.
George Kennett Blake was born in 1751 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Hellen Levina Blake was born on 21 Mar 1855 in Iowa.
users.adelphia.net /~ricblake/b6.html   (1199 words)

  
 George Blake
George Blake was born in Rotterdam to a Dutch mother and an Egyptian father in 1922.
Blake escaped from Holland in 1942 and on arriving in England joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary officer and eventually became an officer.
Blake was convicted of spying in 1961 he was sentenced to 42 years, the longest prison sentence ever imposed by a British court.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSblake.htm   (1201 words)

  
 Penn Special Collections-Keffer-George E. Blake
George E. Blake was born in England in 1775.
Blake was notable as a music publisher for issuing collections of popular songs from operas, the only publisher in the United States to adopt this European practice.
Blake was one of the most extensive music dealer[s] in the country, his shelves being loaded down with the best selections.
www.library.upenn.edu /collections/rbm/keffer/blake.html   (793 words)

  
 1966: The Blake prison escape - libcom.org/history | peopleshistory.co.uk
George Blake was a British double-agent serving 42 years for spying for the Soviet Union.
Blake had lots of supporters in prison who sympathized with his predicament and were joyous at his escape.
George Blake was thus successfully delivered to East Berlin in December 1966, the conclusion to one of the most successful and most notorious prison escapes ever.
www.libcom.org /history/articles/blake-prison-escape-1966   (2079 words)

  
 Blake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Blake clan were among the most extensive landowners in Connacht from the 16th to the 19th century.
Sir Richard Blake was the speaker of the Assembly of Confederate Catholics.
The Blake School, a college preparatory school located in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blake   (187 words)

  
 George B. Blake Author Biography
George Blake is a successful advertising agent who suddenly became single after 18 years of marriage.
George Blake is a member of the National Association of Single Persons, a national organization that insures America's 82 million adults single persons have a voice in the Halls of Congress and in state legislatures.
George Blake lives in Florida and is unmarried but promises to one day put into use the lessons he learned from "Married Again.
www.cedarfort.com /author/Blake.html   (283 words)

  
 A Traitor Exposed
Blake, born in the Netherlands to a British diplomat and a Dutch woman, was trapped there by the German advance when the Second World War broke out in 1940.
Blake, 38, a war hero considered by most of his Foreign Service colleagues as a "splendid chap," married to the daughter of a respected British Foreign Office official and father of two, was arrested and charged in April, 1961, under The Official Secrets Act.
Blake at first was able to successfully stonewall all questions of the SIS interrogator, but later broke down and admitted his guilt.
www.usvetdsp.com /story36.htm   (888 words)

  
 George Blake - Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia
Ze względu na skutki popełnionej zdrady (ujawnienie agentów i operacji wywiadu brytyjskiego i amerykańskiego oraz francuskiego), Blake (właściwie Behne) okazał się dla KGB jednym z najbardziej przydatnych brytyjskich szpiegów.
George Blake poinformował KGB o planie Operacji Gold, polegającej na wybudowaniu tunelu z Berlina Zachodniego do radzieckiej strefy okupacyjnej w Berlinie Wschodnim i podłączenia się do wojskowych kabli telefonicznych centrali wojsk radzieckich w Berlinie Wschodnim.
Po przybyciu do Związku Radzieckiego George Blake został tłumaczem, rozwiedziony podczas odsiadywania wyroku, ożenił się w Moskwie ponownie, miał syna.
pl.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Blake   (609 words)

  
 George III
George was only twelve when his father died and his mother's friend, the Earl of Bute, became an important influence on his future development.
George III was also having trouble with his high-spirited eldest son, George, Prince of Wales.
George was placed in a strait-jacket and eventually his doctors had a special iron chair made to restrain their patient.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRgeorgeIII.htm   (976 words)

  
 SLAINTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Of this programmatic novel Blake later wrote that he pled "guilty to an insufficient knowledge of working class life and to the adoption of a middle-class attitude to the theme of industrial conflict and despair".
Blake's vision was not always commensurate with his literary ability but this attempt at a proletarian novel stands as an early example of what has become a fine tradition of Scottish writing in the fiction of Edward Gaitens, Robin Jenkins, William McIlvanney and James Kelman.
Blake's fiction is more successful in the "Garvel" novels which are set in Greenock and follow the lives of sailors, ship designers, ship builders and their families.
www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/blakedsw.htm   (454 words)

  
 ipedia.com: George Blake Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George Blake is a British spy who was actually a double agent for the Sovietss.
Born in Rotterdam in 1922, Blake was active in the anti- Nazi Dutch resistance and eventually worked for SOE.
Born in Rotterdam in 1922, Blake was active in the anti-Nazi Dutch resistance and eventually worked for SOE.
www.ipedia.com /george_blake.html   (299 words)

  
 George Blake, Greenock
George Blake was born in Greenock on 28th October 1893
It is not too difficult to recognise that the town of “Garvel” is really Greenock, since Blake uses the burgh as a backcloth.
Blake had also been a broadcaster for many years and instituted the radio feature 'The Week in Scotland' which he carried on exclusively for eighteen months.
www.greenock-town.co.uk /george_blake.html   (425 words)

  
 Feature Story
Blake himself is a descendant of both tribes, inheriting the sacred traditions and talents that ran through generations of Yurok and Hupa (as spelled when referring to the people).
Blake admits he was a rebel in his early days, an "angry young person," he says.
Blake is also an accomplished potter, throwing and embellishing pieces that span his Native American roots and modern art.
www.foresthealth.org /magazine/JanMar01/Blake.htm   (1114 words)

  
 George Blake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George Blake is a British spy who was actually a double agent for the Soviets.
Born in Rotterdam in 1922, Blake wasactive in the anti- Nazi Dutch resistance and eventually worked for SOE.
After World War II he was recruited by MI6 and worked on establishing agentnetworks in Soviet occupied Eastern Europe.
www.therfcc.org /george-blake-13228.html   (233 words)

  
 George blake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/george_blake   (146 words)

  
 Indian Craft Shop - Artist of the Month
George Blake, Hupa carver, jeweler and regalia maker, is considered to be one of California's most distinguished and versatile artists.
George began carving when he was in high school, when he realized that there was a need for acorn spoons and other regalia that were no longer being made.
George Blake is an artist whom we are honored and delighted to present, and we hope that you will enjoy the beauty, history and humor in his work as much as we do.
www.indiancraftshop.com /artist-month/sep2000-artist.html   (400 words)

  
 George Blake and the Secret Berlin Tunnel - Telephone Espionage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Among the British agents advised of the plan was George Blake, a Russian KGB mole, who disclosed the existence of the tunnel project to Sergei Kondrashev, his KGB contact at a London meeting the following December.
Blake was arrested in 1961, convicted of treason and sentenced to imprisonment for forty-two years, one year for each of the forty-two British agents whose deaths he was said to have caused.
The Russians had been so afraid of jeopardizing Blake that they had not disclosed the existence of the tunnel to the East German Secret Police or even to their own agents in East Berlin.
www.armyjag.com /pages/8/index.htm   (1011 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 22 | 1966: Double-agent breaks out of jail
One of Britain's most notorious double-agents, George Blake, has escaped from prison in London after a daring break-out believed to have been masterminded by the Soviet Union.
Blake is believed to have taken advantage of the free association allowed between prisoners on Saturday afternoons in the long-term wing, where he had his cell.
Blake was charged under the Official Secrets Act in May 1961.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/22/newsid_3135000/3135206.stm   (579 words)

  
 WdlM Society - online critical studies
That Reverend, noting George's condition, questions him closely, as a result of which Mengus is given the sack with a quarter's wages in lieu of notice.
Blake brings in Occam's Razor: 'It's no good in this world, sir, putting reasons more far-fetched to a thing than are necessary to account for it.' Some farmer's lout, he tells himself, has moved it.
Blake doesn't go out at all the next day, but when, at the upper windows that evening in the light of the harvest moon, he picks up the binoculars he sees, before he uses the glasses, rapid movement that suddenly fixes itself into the scarecrow when he focuses on it.
www.bluetree.co.uk /wdlmsociety/research/russellhoban4.htm   (1298 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George Blake ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons.
George Blake, a prominent merchant and a former State legislator of New Gloucester, was born in that town, March 10, 1812, son of Richard and Susan (Pierce) Blake.
George Blake remained at home until he was twenty-one.
www.raynorshyn.com /megenweb/cumberland/biographies/blake1.txt   (652 words)

  
 BETRAYAL: George Blake - Master Of Deception - showing on The History Channel
George Blake was born in Holland on November 11, 1922.
At the height of the cold war, Blake betrayed hundreds of agents working for the West who paid with their lives.
Blake was eventually exposed, captured and convicted of treason.
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/tv_guide/full_details/People/programme_2582.php   (270 words)

  
 UK - Spy Cases - Blake & Lonsdale
George Blake "has emerged to sing the praises of Yevgeny Primakov, the former KGB spy chief and presidential hopeful.
Blake's admiration for Mr Primakov was one of the few details to emerge about a semi-secret trip by Blake to Vladivostok, the Pacific port and reported home of the KGB officers who recruited him during the Korean War."
George Blake should not be allowed to keep £90,000 in profits from his memoirs, No Other Choice, the British High Court was told on 1 April 1996.
intellit.muskingum.edu /uk_folder/ukspycases_folder/ukspycasesb&l.html   (979 words)

  
 KGB Spies Prevented WWIII Says Master Russian Spy George Blake
Now aged 78, Blake appeared fit and wholly convinced of the rightness of his actions, which he justified in an earlier volume of memoirs, published in 1990, entitled "No Other Choice".
Often bracketed with Britain's Cambridge-educated spies such as Kim Philby and Guy Burgess, Blake was in fact an outsider, born in the Netherlands to an Egyptian father and Dutch mother, who, far from attending public school, did not set foot in Britain until he was nearly 20.
Blake's former controller Sergei Kondrashev -- who received the Berlin tunnel plans from Blake on the upper deck of a London bus -- revealed at the same press conference that he was preparing to publish his own memoirs.
www.rense.com /general11/blake.htm   (478 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Biography of George Blake Cosby Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- GEORGE BLAKE COSBY was born at Louisville, Ky., January 19, 1830.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1852, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Mounted Rifle regiment.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/shawnee/library/KSHSvol12/cosby.txt   (310 words)

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