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What Made George Blake Tick?

A psychiatrist who specializes in defectors puts the late British ‘Superspy’ on a postmortem couch

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David Charney
Dec 27, 2020
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David Charney is an Alexandria, Va. psychiatrist who has written extensively on the minds of defectors, having interviewed FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen and others. He is the author of  True Psychology of the Insider Spy and other studies, which can be found at his web site, NOIR4USA.org.

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