LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

George Blake, double agent, interviewed in Moscow

Genre

Interview

TX Date

18 Sep 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:05:52

Description

Spy author Phillip Knightley interviews Soviet double agent, George Blake in Moscow, following the publication of his autobiography (which Knightley wrote the foreword for). While working for the British secret service between 1954 and 1960, Blake was also working for the KGB. He was arrested in 1960 and sentenced to 42 years in prison but escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966, and has since lived in Moscow. Blake expresses his views on politics and says he stills believes in the value of communism as a political system. In two parts.

Contributors

Phillip Knightley; George Blake

Keywords

UK; Great Britain; USSR; Political systems; Espionage; Autobiographies; Spies; Communism; Intelligence service; Moscow; George Blake

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