In a rare interview given on the occasion of his 88th birthday, the former Soviet agent said he had no regrets and expressed no remorse for betraying Britain or its intelligence service.  Still an ardent Russophile, Mr Blake, who calls himself Georgy Ivanovich in Moscow, said he still had no time for American foreign policy.  "The American empire will disappear because everyone who lives by the sword dies from the sword," he told the daily Izvestia newspaper.  Mr Blake was a member of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service, from 1944 to 1961. Around 1951, he also became an agent for the Soviet Union. After being arrested in 1960, he pleaded guilty to five counts of unlawfully communicating information contrary to the Official Secrets Act. In 1966, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London before fleeing to Russia, after serving only five years of a 42-year sentence.  In the interview, which appeared timed to remind the world of Russia's spying prowess despite the embarrassing exposure of a Russian spy ring in the US earlier this year, Blake admitted that the Soviet Union he arrived at in 1966 did not live up to his high-minded Communist ideals. But he made it clear he had not lost the faith.  "I understand now that the Soviet project was doomed. The problem was not the Russians but human nature. Humankind was not sufficiently moral to build such a society," he conceded.  But he said he was confident that time was on Communism's side.  "One day I believe that the majority of governments will voluntarily choose the Communist model. Without violence, revolution or terror. Maybe it sounds like a Utopia but I believe in it. There will be no wars and no competition."  Mr Blake, who said his eyesight was failing and that he had just helped make a film of his life, described a comfortable if quiet existence in Moscow with his second wife with whom he has an adult son.  He said he had acquired a taste for vodka, followed the international news closely by watching the BBC via satellite TV, and kept in regular contact with his three sons in Britain from his first marriage.
George Blake, the British double agent, has forecast that the "American empire" will crumble and predicted that every country in the world will one day embrace Communism.