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The springing of George Blake
PETER FROST relates a true spy story as remarkable as any Cold War novel
FRIENDS IN NEED: Michael Randle (left) and Pat Pottle were
accused of helping George Blake escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison
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IT WAS one of those gloriously serendipitous coincidences. In the Morning Star of December 28 late last year Nick Wright gave us an analytical obituary of spy and novelist John Le Carre and the writer’s undoubted deep understanding of the Cold War.
In the same edition, on the paper’s news pages was the report that George Blake, one of Russia’s best known spies in Britain, had died in his Moscow “dacha,” or country cottage at the age of 98.
The news item reported tributes to the former Soviet spy and Russian national hero George Blake and outlined the basics of Blake’s amazing story.
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