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2020-12-26 -Obits-

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

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-26 08:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 All that true believing and he died after the country he defected to...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-26 09:10|| 2020-12-26 09:10|| Front Page Top

#2 He converted as a prisoner in North Korea because, he said, "Communism will put an end to war." He said this in North Korea. During the war that was started by ...North Korea.

Why wasn't this disgusting, murderous lunatic executed when MI6 caught him?

Posted by Albert Guelph5029 2020-12-26 09:34|| 2020-12-26 09:34|| Front Page Top

Defections due to espionage are so 'old school'.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-26 10:21|| 2020-12-26 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment

Read the above again. Is it just me or Reuters is now hiring writers who can't use relative pronouns properly?

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-26 11:18|| 2020-12-26 11:18|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Seems o.k. to me. "last....whose...."

Posted by Clem 2020-12-26 22:26|| 2020-12-26 22:26|| Front Page Top

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