LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

George Blake on possibility of extradition to UK

Genre

Interview

TX Date

27 Aug 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:00:23

Description

Telephone interview from his Moscow apartment with British double agent, George Blake, who is confident the new style KGB won’t agree to deport him to Britain following the implosion of the Soviet Union. A newspaper has quoted the new KGB deputy chief as saying he’ll review the case of Blake, who fled to Moscow in 1966, after breaking out of London’s Wormwood Scrubs prison. ITN copyright.

Contributors

ITN; George Blake

Keywords

Deportation; UK; Great Britain; USSR; Political systems; Espionage; Spies; Intelligence service; KGB; Moscow; George Blake

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