European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes British envoy who spied for Kab gives is interview since defection today s crossword Moscow Dpi George Blake a former British spy who fled to the soviet Union in 1966 after a dramatic jail break made his first Public appearance sunday in an unannounced soviet television interview. Looking healthy and speaking Clear hut accented russian. Blake 65. Was Unn pc Tant about his years of espionage in the far East and Europe for the soviets. He said he believed then and still believes in communism. After a similar television appear Ance oct. 6 by former British Mas Ter spy Kim i Hilby. 75, Blake is the second defecting British spy to be interviewed on television. The Brief interview carried on official soviet television in Moscow shortly after Midnight saturday was billed As the first of a series of four interviews with Blake. The Liming was significant be cause most moscovits spend sat urday night at Home to watch late night variety shows and such inter views exemplify glasnost or open Ness in an area where the authorities have kept the Public in the dark for decades. Blake the son of a dutch woman and Anglo egyptian father was a wartime dutch resistance fighter who became a British Diplomat after obtaining British citizenship in 1948. While acting As British vice con sul in Seoul. South Korea in 1950. He was interned by the North koreans brainwashed for 17 months and emerged a committed communist and Kab spy. He concealed his conversion and was sent to Ber Lin by the British foreign office in 1953. There he is said to have Given the soviets the names of whole net works of British agents sending at least 40 of them to Captivity or death in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He said on television he enjoys his work in the soviet Union but the program did not say what he does or where he works. He said he had studied marxist leninism while in the soviet Union european w6ather ?8 ova. 1 Tonto to 54 Vine out and still held communist views. Sometime in the late 1950s, the Cia informed London of a suspected spy at Blake s level but it was Only until 1961 they became certain one of their Field agents was working for the Kab. Blake was enticed Back to London from a Middle East arabic studies Center and is said to have pleaded guilty to five counts of espionage at a secret old Bailey trial that lasted Only 15 minutes on May 3,1961. He was sentenced 38 to 42 years the longest jail term levied up to that time but managed to escape from the maximum Security worm Wood scrubs prison five years and five months later. Regarded As a superficially Cul tured Man Blake wrote his autobiography in 1970, but it was not published in the soviet Union and there was Little Western interest in it. 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