Cold War

Resident recalls Russia after Cold War

About 150 people gathered in the town hall of Boesmansriviermond at the weekend to listen to a talk by local resident Elspeth Liebenberg about her family’s work for Campus Crusade for Christ in Russia. The fundraising event was presented…

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Soviet secret agent George Blake gestures as he speaks at a presentation of a book of letters written by other spies from a British prison, in Moscow June 28, 2001. Blake — a notorious traitor in Britain and legendary hero in Russia — escaped from a British jail in 1966 while serving a 42 year sentence for passing secrets to Moscow.Image: Alexander Natruskin./File Photo

BRITAIN

27 DEC 2020

George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98

George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War.…

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