In Lebanon the heavily pregnant Gillian Blake was told that her husband was a KGB agent, and instantly believed it. 'I didn't say, "You must have got hold of the wrong man, it can't be true." As I thought back to George's background and to the six-and-a-half years of our very happy life, it all fitted in somehow.' Trying to explain his actions, she pointed out his 'lack of the substantial background that people have, of family and schools and all that sort of thing.' The Dutchman Louis Wesseling, a fellow student of Blake's on the Arabic course, said later: 'It was my Eureka moment: That's it! That's why he is so reserved, wants to be open but cannot be fully open, holds something back from me, is a friend but not a total friend - that's it.' As Gillian commented, 'He really had no friends, though he knew a lot of people and liked a lot of people.'
Simon Kuper, The Happy Traitor
