He was the perfect British gentleman - polite, well-spoken, impeccable manners and a knack for charming everyone who came in ...

And so the game of deceit and double-dealing continued. The Cambridge spies were deceiving their colleagues, their service, their families and their country. They did this in the sincere belief ...

Two of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled to Russia in 1951. A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

Burgess and Maclean were part of a group of Cambridge graduates working as double ... who said he had the names of dozens of British spies - and made sure the KGB got to him first Elsewhere ...

cover the period when evidence emerged of the treachery within the British establishment in the form of the men - who would become known as the Cambridge Spies - who had spied for the Soviet Union.

There is an old joke that there may have been a group of Soviet spies at Oxford like the five Cambridge Spies, but unlike those from Cambridge, the spies from Oxford simply did not get caught. MI5 ...

Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified documents from MI5. The documents are part of a new exhibition on display at ...

Her story, told through the fictional character of Joan Stanley, is inextricably linked with the fate of the Cambridge spies, who were recruited by Soviet sympathisers at the university because ...

Among the papers is an incomplete six-page confession from 1963 of Philby, seen as the Cambridge Five's ringleader ... papers and equipment used by spies in the agency's 115-year history.