George Blake
Books
- Under Berlin The Berlin Tunnel, George Blake, and the Cold War's Greatest Intelligence Gamble · Liszt Think
In 1955, American and British intelligence tunneled beneath the Berlin border to tap Soviet military cables, capturing a river of secret conversations.
- The City of Wire…success and a practical problem. The success of the tunnel, however, was shadowed by a fact that the planners did not know. The MI6 officer George Blake had reported the plan to the KGB before the first shovel went in. Blake, a Soviet mole embedded in British intelligence, had been recruited…
- The Man Who Hated Paper…iew, though Harvey could not have known it at the time. The tunnel’s planning had been reported to the KGB before the first shovel went in. George Blake, the MI6 officer assigned to the British side of the operation, had been recruited by the Soviets in 1951 and had passed them details of th…
- A Service in Exile…on’s existence was a secret, and the secret was held tight. But secrets have a way of moving beyond the circles in which they are confined. George Blake had returned to Britain in 1953 after three years in North Korean captivity. He had been captured in Seoul in 1950, when Communist forces o…