For Many Years, George Blake Worked for the Canadian Spy

question 54

True/False

For many years, George Blake worked for the Canadian spy agency.The authorities eventually discovered, however, that he was actually working as a double agent, and that he was passing government secrets to countries that are unfriendly towards Canada.He was convicted and sent to prison, but he managed a daring escape and fled out of the country.Because he is now well-known, and therefore cannot work as a spy, he has written a book in which he reveals several pieces of information that the Canadian government still considered secret and enormously important.A court could, among other things, order George to pay his profits from the book over to the Canadian government.

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