On December 26, 2020, a 98-year-old man died of illness in Russia, and Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately expressed his "deep condolences" to him and highly praised the old man's contribution. The old man was the famous double-sided spy of World War II, George Blake.
Putin was originally a KGB spy, and it is common for people to have respect for his predecessors, but this Mr. Black is not an ordinary person, he is one of the most hated people in Britain, and he is called "the most shameful traitor" by the British.
If you've heard the story of this Mr. George Blake, it's not hard to understand why the British hate him to the bone. It was because of his existence that MI6 and even the entire British intelligence system were almost completely exposed to the eyes of the Soviet KGB and served it for more than a decade.
If there really is 007 in the world, then his greatest wish should be to kill Blake. James Bond can only be four words in front of Blake, "out of reach"!
George Blake was not British, born on 11 November 1922 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to a British father, whose ancestral home is Turkish, ethnically Jewish and his mother is Dutch. Therefore, we also say that it is not clear what kind of blood he is, and what kind of ethnic group he should be listed.
Perhaps because of his ancestry and family background, Blake had a high talent for languages, he was fluent in English, Dutch, and later French, German, Arabic, and Russian, and we guess he probably knew some Turkish and Jewish.
When Blake was thirteen years old, his father died of illness. His mother took him to Cairo, Egypt, to join his sister.
The reason why Blake's mother wanted to go from developed Netherlands to backward Cairo was because her sister was married to a banker in Cairo, very rich, and did not want to stutter the two of them.
So after Blake lost his father, he did not suffer much, and in Cairo he and his mother not only lived a superior life, but also received a good education under the financial support of his uncle, and of course his grades were also very good.
While in Cairo, Blake had a good relationship with his cousin Henry Curry and often played together, and he was exposed to a novel idea from his cousin: communism. His cousin was an Egyptian Communist, well known in Egyptian history.
At that time, Blake was a teenager in middle school, did not understand or be interested in politics, and he believed in Christianity, communism preached atheism, and his understanding was very different, so he did not trust this matter.
When he was 16 years old, he was admitted to the University of London in the United Kingdom, and his mother took him back to England, the year was 1938. At that time, the European continent was already full of war clouds, and Hitler's troops to go to war were already a foregone conclusion. Historically, Britain itself was not invaded by the Nazis, so going to England was a very wise choice.
On September 1, 1939, the Germans blitzed Poland and Britain officially declared war on Germany. This made Blake's mother panic, so she made a decision that she thought was more sensible, taking the child to Holland.
After the German blitzkrieg against Poland, the Dutch government declared neutrality, so she thought the Netherlands was safe, and there was no need to pay rent in the Netherlands.
Soon after the couple returned to the Netherlands, the Germans launched an attack on the Netherlands, and Blake was 17 years old, had his own opinion, and because he was of Jewish blood, he was full of hatred for nazi atrocities.
He and his classmates went to the streets to distribute leaflets calling on the Dutch people to unite against the Nazis and telling people that British and French reinforcements would soon arrive.
As a result, they really waited for the Nazi German army, and Blake and his mother were separated during the war. The mother immediately made another wise choice, took the last boat and fled to England, leaving her son and wife in the Netherlands and leaving herself.
Blake returned to his grandmother's house and waited for a long time, mistakenly believing that his mother had died in the war, and his hatred for the Nazis deepened. Since then, 17-year-old Blake has embarked on the path of life alone, in addition to his language talent, he also has an advantage that others cannot match: good fate, good luck!
After the German occupation of Rotterdam, the Jews and rebels were hunted down, and Blake was also arrested in a concentration camp, and after entering, the Nazis beat him half to death without asking, and Blake swore in his heart that he would not share the sky with the Nazis!
It was said that entering the concentration camp was equivalent to entering the slaughterhouse, but he was lucky to meet a kind Dutch guard, and seeing that he was young and Dutch, he let down his guard and helped him escape.
When Blake came out, he had the opportunity to flee to England, but he did not leave like his mother, after all, there was an elderly grandmother in the family, and he fled to his uncle's house with his grandmother.
Soon after, his grandmother died, Black was uncared for, and the atrocities of the German army stimulated his heart, so he joined the Dutch underground resistance and vowed to take up a gun and fight the Nazis to the death.
But his wish was not fulfilled, the Resistance did not give him a gun, but asked him to pass on the information, and Blake reluctantly accepted the task. His first job was to pass on intelligence, and he didn't expect to be able to change his career in this life.
The Nazis imposed high-handed rule in the Netherlands, and it was very dangerous to pass on information, and many correspondents were arrested and killed, but Blake passed on many important pieces of information, but he was always safe and sound, and made a great contribution.
When Blake fled to England in 1943, when the British were planning a counteroffensive, he signed up for the Navy, and it was said that those who escaped from Nazi-controlled areas had to be strictly vetted or not allowed to enter important institutions such as the army. But as soon as Blake filled out the form, he became an official navy and was sent to the Portsmouth base for training.
After a few months of training, his superiors discovered that Blake was not very good at swimming, but had an advantage in language, so he transferred him to the Dutch office of the Naval Intelligence Service, where Blake began to show his talent for language.
After about a year in the Navy, Black was taken in by an intelligence unit of the Army, MI6.
The heads of the six divisions believe that Blake is proficient in various Chinese, has lived in nazi-ruled areas for several years, and is still Jewish, and is an extremely good spy seedling. He was recruited and prepared to infiltrate the nazi core areas for intelligence and assassination work.
When Blake heard that he could assassinate the Nazis, he jumped up excitedly and agreed to join MI6 without saying a word. The Six Were britain's highest-ranking intelligence agencies and had particularly high requirements for agents, so they conducted a comprehensive and systematic training of Blake.
In May 1945, just as Blake was about to complete all his training courses, MI6 told him the great news that Hitler was dead and the Germans had surrendered!
The news left Blake excited and dazed, Hitler dead, and his vengeance was repaid. But the efforts made over the years are not useless, and it is in vain that the heart is inevitably lost and wandering.
But MI6 didn't intend to waste this talent because they already had a new adversary, the Soviet Union. Before the end of World War II, Britain and the United States planned surveillance operations against the Soviets, and they accurately predicted that there would be a protracted and fierce "Cold War" between the two sides after the war.
Since it required a large number of russian-speaking talents to fight the Soviet Union, people with great linguistic talent such as Blake became the focus of training, and MI6 sent him to Cambridge University to study Russian.
In this way, Blake unknowingly entered the world's highest university, and he did not worry about finding a good job after relying on this degree.
So the excellent young man studied Russian in Cambridge for two years without worry, and the language was not much difficult for Blake, but between these two years he had a different understanding of the Soviet Union.
Learning Russian naturally understands the history of Russians, and the close-up story of the October Revolution, the Great Patriotic War and the anti-fascism is naturally very detailed, which makes Blake have a deep admiration for the Russians and the Soviets, at least they are different from Hitler's socialism. (The official name of the Nazis was: National Socialist Party.) In essence, Hitler practiced ultra-nationalism in the name of socialism. ）
In October 1948, Blake graduated from Cambridge, and MI6 assigned him a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Consul at the British Consulate in South Korea. Six places are cattle, and they casually want a second-in-command position.
Black's main task was not to deal with diplomacy, but to gather intelligence about the Soviet Union, North Korea, and China.
After arriving in Seoul, Blake was an eye-opener, at that time, South Korea had just broken away from the colonial rule of the Japanese, and the people were still struggling on the line of life and death. Even in the capital, Seoul, there were beggars everywhere, but the government formed by Syngman Rhee lived a very extravagant and decadent life, and the gap between the rich and the poor was staggering.
What made Blake most unaccustomed was that the Syngman Rhee government not only did not think about how to change the state of the country at this time, but also thought about fighting a war and recovering North Korea, and even if they could not eat, they also wanted the people to levy military expenses.
But this situation did not last long, in 1950 Kim Il Sung launched an attack on South Korea, Rhee immediately ordered his troops to meet North Korea with the most heroic feelings, the result of which the South Korean army was almost on the verge of collapse, desperate to flee south.
Syngman Rhee did not even have time to inform the consulates in Seoul, and he ran away, and Blake and the others woke up the next day to find that the consulate had been surrounded by North Korean troops.
At first, the North Korean army just surrounded them and did not embarrass them, after all, Britain was one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, and the two countries did not have hostile relations.
The British government, after learning of the outbreak of the Korean War, declared war on Korea at the first time, and after a while remembered that Seoul still had more than a hundred people sent by itself in the hands of the North Korean army.
As a result, Blake and the others became prisoners of the Korean People's Army, and they were subsequently sent to the Yonggampo concentration camp, where they were not mistreated, but were treated with relative care.
Longyanpu is just on the banks of the Yalu River, and you can clearly see the Chinese village opposite. Soon MacArthur led the U.S. troops to land at Inchon, and the tide of the war was immediately reversed, and U.S. bombers began bombing northern Korea and Chinese territory on the Yalu River.
The Yonggampo area was not a front line, and most of the men in nearby North Korean villages were conscripted into the army. Blake witnessed U.S. bombers dropping bombs on villages on both sides of the Yalu River, killing large numbers of civilians, destroying property, and most of the villages were filled with women, children, old and old.
This greatly touched Blake, what is the difference between the US military and the Nazis, and why should the British and the United States intervene in the internal affairs of the Koreans themselves? Shouldn't a corrupt government like Syngman Rhee's be overthrown? What did Chinese do wrong, and why bomb their civilians?
At this time, the leaders of the Soviet side also came to see these British diplomats, knew that their lives were boring and boring, and brought them some books.
However, there were only a few English books, which had long been robbed, and the rest were all Left to Blake in Russian.
At this time, Blake couldn't do anything but eat and sleep, so he simply calmed down and read the book. These books are precisely the "Marxism" and "Capital" that Blake has long heard of, and these books are strictly forbidden in the West.
So he began to study it carefully, and the more he read it, the more he felt reasonable, Marx, the old man, is indeed not simple, the world's problems have been thoroughly studied by him, is this not the truth of saving the world?
After a series of ideological struggles, in the middle of the night, Blake suddenly figured out that he wanted to join the Communist Party and become a true believer in communism!!!
So he secretly contacted the Soviets through the prison guards, saying that he was willing to provide important information to the Soviet Union when he returned to Britain.
After much investigation, the KGB accepted Black and listed his identity as a top secret, even in the KGB headquarters, there are only a few people who know him, and except for a few supreme leaders, no one knows his name, only the person's code name "Diamond"!
In 1953, the warring sides exchanged prisoners of war, and the British consulate staff were soon released and returned to Britain via Beijing. The KGB did not give Black any tasks, nor did it reveal any information to him, but told him what to do when he returned to England, and our people would contact you, just waiting in silence.
The British government would certainly have to censor these people who had been imprisoned for several years, and it would not be until half a year before the censorship was completely over, during which black behaved in all normal ways, because he really did not know anything about the KGB, except for the conversation.
Blake was also transferred back to MI6 for civilian duties, at which point KGB agents approached Him and gave him a miniature camera to photograph the classified documents in the Six Locations and place the film in the designated location.
The candid shooting went very smoothly, and Blake was not suspected or monitored, and a year later the KGB stopped his candid shooting operation. The reason is simple: there are too many Soviet spies in MI6, and the information provided by Blake is repetitive.
Blake's intelligence was obtained through candid photographs, and another legendary spy, Kim Philby, put the confidential documents in a briefcase, carried them home and copied them, and then brought them back the next day. People have been doing this for more than ten years, MI6 is stunned not to find, in the eyes of the KGB, six is transparent.
Then Blake applied for an external transfer, and the Six Divisions also sent him to West Berlin to examine all the people who came from the Soviet side, and there must be spies in it. Of course there are spies, he is one of them, no matter how to censor, you can never censor yourself.
When he arrived in Berlin, his first task was the American "golden plan" to secretly dig a tunnel from West Berlin to East Berlin and then eavesdrop on Soviet phone calls.
Black was directly involved in the plan, and the Soviet side naturally knew about it, and the KGB was waiting there before the tunnel started, and the virtual telephone line had long been laid.
Even the route was chosen with the help of the KGB, and there was a septic tank in the middle, and the old hair was really bad!
After the tunnel was completed, Blake was also rewarded, and the CIA and six expensive projects arranged for a thousand people to eavesdrop on nonsense for a full year and two months.
Later, the Soviet side arranged a fortuitous event to expose the "Golden Plan" to the whole world, and hit Britain and the Americans in the face.
However, the British and American sides are still a little complacent, after all, so many telephone recordings have been intercepted, so they have sent additional personnel to analyze and sort out these telephone recordings, so they turned these nonsense over and listened to them for six years!
After completing the Golden Project, Blake began a spy screening campaign in Berlin, and he also had access to six spies sent to the Soviet Side, which was transmitted to Lubyanka, where almost all of his years of hard work were destroyed, but they still did not suspect Blake.
In 1960, a mysterious Figure in Poland who called himself a "sniper" revealed to the Americans that MI6 had a senior spy code-named "Diamond" who was providing the KGB with a list of latent spies.
Mi6 was furious when he found out, and it turned out that he had lost so much that he was an internal ghost. (Does this kind of thing still need to be discovered?) You can think of it with your toes! ）
So MI6 launched a highly classified operation to investigate the ghosts, the top level of the six departments decided to send a capable force to carry out this investigation mission, after full discussion and careful comparison, they selected one of the most capable officers: George Blake!
Blake was particularly uncomfortable when he accepted the task, because he really wanted to laugh, but he had to hold it until he went home at night...
Let Blake check on himself, MI6 bosses on top, indeed bull plus!
Blake pretended to start a large-scale investigation of the "diamonds" inside the six places, but he could not find any way, which made the leaders of the six places think that the agents sent by the KGB were really not simple. , it's weird to be able to find it!
At the same time, Blake also informed the KGB that there was a traitor named "Sniper" in Poland, who wanted to check on me, and you quickly dug him out and directly collapsed, don't always find trouble for me.
In 1960, Michal Glenevski, deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Polish Ministry of Defense, suddenly defected to the United States, and he was the "sniper" who was one step late for the KGB.
When Michal arrived in the United States, he told the CIA that diamonds had stopped providing intelligence to the Soviet Union since 1960. So the CIA began to investigate the movement of six people at this point in time, and it happened that among these people was Blake.
In April 1961, Blake was censored, and the actual six places only felt that Blake's movement trajectory was somewhat coincidental, there was no evidence in essence, and they did not believe that someone like Blake would defect. As it is called: people only believe what they are willing to believe.
After a long period of scrutiny, to no avail, the censors have largely ruled out suspicion of Blake, but at the last moment it is not known whether Blake could not withstand the pressure or inadvertently slipped out of his mouth, spitting out a sentence: "I voluntarily believe in communism", and finally exposed.
Black was then sued, and the British legal system is indeed a bit elusive, just like the judges in Hong Kong, who always try to exonerate criminals, as if this can establish an image of legal justice and fairness.
In the end, Black was sentenced to 42 years, which is said to be the highest sentence record since the abolition of the death penalty in Britain, and no one has ever broken it. As for why he was sentenced to 42 years, no one can say, but some people speculate that it was because Blake betrayed 42 British spies, and these 42 were eventually executed by the KGB.
Blake later denied this claim, and if he had followed this criterion, he would have been sentenced to seven or eight hundred years in prison. But the judge disagrees, because you have no evidence!
All right! Blake said that he was helpless, he could not always collect evidence on his own to prove that he had to be sentenced to eight hundred years!
Originally, the KGB wanted to exchange its own senior British spies for Black, but MI6 did not agree, if it were not for the court to stop, the boy would have been cramped and skinned, he would have died in a British prison.
Blake was later imprisoned in Britain's tightest prison, and five years later, with the help of four inmates, Blake managed to escape in a simple and brutal manner, and ran back to the Soviet Union on his own.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, Blake was treated heroically, and later retired in Moscow to enjoy his old age.
But for MI6, the darkest hour is far from coming. In 1984, Kim Philby's book The Remainder of the Spy Sea was published, exposing MI6's flawed management and internal chaos, and completely pulling MI6 from the altar.
Soon after, Blake published his biography, My Spy Career, which once again made MI6 the laughing stock of the world.
Since then, MI6 has only been able to rely on the movie 007 to save some virtual face!
I am the Phantom of Shi Hai, and I am following me to praise history.