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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 1992 file photo, George Blake, a former British spy who doubled as a Soviet agent, gestures during a news conference in Moscow. Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, has died in Russia. He was 98. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service announced his death on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020 without giving any circumstances of his death. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences, hailing Blake as a “brilliant professional” and a man of “remarkable courage.” (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

British double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98

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Banners like one bearing the words &quot;Committed to Diversity&quot; are displayed outside Knott Hall on the campus of Loyola Blakefield, in Towson, Md., Nov. 18, 2020. In the past few months, nearly every private and parochial school in the region has confronted voices of anger from Black alumni and calls for their schools to reckon with racist pasts. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Rumor forces Maryland school to dig into its racial history

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George Blake, a British defector who spied for the Soviets in Britain, gestures during a news conference in Moscow, Jan. 15, 1992. Blake said his life's work on behalf of communism had been a failure, but called communism a noble experiment "and I don't think it was wrong to try," Blake said. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)

Steve Vogel’s interview with Cold War spy George Blake

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