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George Blake aka Georgy Ivanovich, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98
2020-12-26
[Reuters] LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  /\ Seems o.k. to me. "last....whose...."
Posted by: Clem   2020-12-26 22:26  

#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  

#3  Defections due to espionage are so 'old school'.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-12-26 10:21  

#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  

#1  All that true believing and he died after the country he defected to...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-12-26 09:10  

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