George Blake, Cold War spy who betrayed Britain, dies at 98

George Blake, whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated British intelligence when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War, has died in Russia at the age of 98.

He was the last in a line of spies who exposed the identities of hundreds of Western agents across Eastern Europe in the 1950s, some of whom were executed as a result of his treason.

Blake’s case was among the most notorious of the Cold War, alongside those of a separate ring of British double…