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George Blake dead: Infamous British traitor and Soviet Union spy dies aged 98

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxNotorious British traitor George Blake has died, Russian foreign intelligence has announced today (December 26).The 98-year-old spy had been living in Moscow since he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966."The bitter news has come – the legendary George Blake is gone,” said Sergey Ivanov, spokesman for the SVR foreign intelligence agency, formerly the KGB.“He died of old age, his heart stopped.”Blake was sentenced to a record 42-year jail sentence in London in 1961 for spilling MI6 secrets to the Soviet Union, sending dozens of Western agents to their deaths.He went on the run after climbing over the London prison’s wall in 1966, soon.

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