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British double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98

by Vladimir Isachenkov
| December 26, 2020 5:03 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — 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.

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