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Contents 1 Royal Navy Experience 2 Escape Section Needs Revision 3 Order of Friendship 4 New Theory on Blake's Background =

[edit] Royal Navy Experience

During WW2 Blake served in the Royal Navy. As HMS Mauritius set off from Glasgow for the Normandy beaches in June 1944 she stopped in the Firth of Clyde and a tender came alongside and took off PO George Blake (newly promoted, still in seamans rig.

I removed this paragraph because, as written, I don't know what it means or why it's relevant to the rest of the article. Someone who understands should clarify the text and add this back to the article. mako (talk•contribs) 17:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

huntley53 (talk) 17:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)== Clean up == I have attempted to give the article some structure by introducing some headings. I have also rewritten some parts in order to give some clarity, and have removed several wrong assertions which could certainly not have been verified in any of the biographies:

• He was not a Dutch/British spy, he worked for MI6 so just British will do
• His father was born Turkish not Egyptian
• His family was not an "eminent Jewish family of Amsterdam". It was his father's side of the family which was Jewish not the Dutch side. His mother's family were from Rotterdam not Amsterdam.
• Henri Curiel was his cousin not his uncle, and while they did spend time together there is no evidence to back-up the assertion that he spent "most of his time" with Curiel
• I have deleted the whole of the Iris Peake incident as it was chronologically inaccurate (it happened after the War) and seems irrelevant in this context. Most biographers only mention the incident in passing as a possible reason for Blake to have a grudge against the British establishment, and the idea that it sent Blake running back to his "uncle" in Egypt in order to join the KGB is just plain wrong. It was his incarceration by the North Koreans (and some would say "brain-washing") that led him to turn to Communism and to contact the KGB in Berlin.--77.97.173.114 15:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I would like to add that the reference to Holland should be The Netherlands (Holland is not strictly a country)

[edit] Escape Section Needs Revision

The escape section is a word-for-word copy of the cited site: http://libcom.org/history/1966-the-blake-prison-escape. hodgetts 04:32, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Order of Friendship

• Blake was awarded the "Order of Friendship" in 2007 should that be mentioned. Last paragraph in this link. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012702378_pf.htm D.Mandalore (talk) 00:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Theory on Blake's Background =

Blake was a Soviet Illegal officer, sent by PGU to infiltrate British Intelligence. Konon Molody was his Illegal Resident. http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=10178FE5-3B51-4844-B295-B6E98FC3199F —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.136.226 (talk) 15:15, 3 April 2008 (UTC)