George Blake had a straggly beard ... He had been a civil servant of the English Indian government, and he was completely a servant of the English colonial system. But he was a very sensible ...

George Blake in 1992. He didn’t feel British enough ... He had been a civil servant of the English Indian government, and he was completely a servant of the English colonial system.

George Blake was less famous than Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. Yet he ranked in importance with any member of the “Cambridge ring”. Unlike the latter, moreover, he retained ...