Unlike George Blake, John Quine was fond of hats.
John Quine, writes The Independent, was head of counter-intelligence at the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 in the 1960s, and one of the team that extracted a confession of treachery from the double agent George Blake. Blake, a member of MI6, was, of all the spies uncovered in the Cold War, the one who did most damage to Britain. [More]
George Blake, conversely, is doing quite well these days. Age 90, he still looks much as he did in this old photo with Kim Philby. Here’s a Daily Mail interview from last Fall.
Kim Philby with George Blake, c 1977. Blake, alias Behar, was twelve years younger than Philby and did not drink two pitchers of martinis every evening.
