Patrick Pottle (born 8 August 1938, London; died 1 October 2000) was a founder member of the Committee of 100, an anti-nuclear direct action group which broke away from CND.
In 1962, at the height of the Cold War, Pottle was jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to organise the Committee of 100 demonstrations at the nuclear base USAF Wethersfield in Essex.
In Wormwood Scrubs prison Pottle met the spy George Blake and his outrage at the “vicious” sentence imposed on the spy led him and two others, Michael Randle and Sean Bourke, to free Blake in October 1966.[1][2][3]
A few months after Blake's escape, Pottle met and married Susan Abrahams, daughter of the Olympic champion Harold Abrahams and his wife Sybil Evers.[4]