Blake

On October 22, 1966, a dramatic prison break occurred in England. George Blake, who was serving an unprecedented 42-year sentence for being a Soviet spy, was sprung from Wormwood Scrubs prison—and later turned up in Moscow. For years Moscow denied any complicity in Blakes escape. But KGB defector Victor Cherkashin recently revealed that the daring rescue of George Blake had been engineered by the KGB—Cherkashin himself had once been assigned to draw up plans for the escape. In fact, not only was Blake sprung from prison, but one of his rescuers, Sean Bourke, then joined him in Moscow. Bourke could not adjust to life there, however, so the KGB allowed him to go to Ireland, where the British had no jurisdiction.

Original KGB documents in the Mitrokhin Archivedescribed by the FBI as the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source, show that the KGBs foreign intelligence service, the PGU, also addled Bourkes memory. On instructions from General Aleksandr Sakharovsky, the head of the PGU, Bourke was given a drug designed to cause brain damage and to thus limit his potential usefulness if he fell into the hands of British intelligence. Bourke wrote an innocuous book about the escape and died not long thereafter.

Why did the PGU go to such unprecedented lengths to hide its hand in Blakes prison escape? Because it did not want to crack open a window even the slightest bit on the most secret of its secrets: the field of illegal operations.

"Russian Spies of the Future" By: Ion Mihai Pacepa
FrontPageMagazine.com
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