A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...
Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her ...
Helenus Milmo, a barrister and wartime MI5 officer, was tasked with trying to wring the truth from Kim Philby. Some seven ...
The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who ...
The group included Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and John Cairncross. Philby, often seen as the ringleader, also recruited Burgess and Maclean, later tipping them off in 1951 when ...
open image in gallery Philby (right) at a London press conference held in response to his involvement with Burgess and Maclean, 8 November 1955 (Getty) “Its members are recruited by invitation ...
Before Burgess left the US, Philby had told him the priority was to get Maclean out of the country before he faced the inevitable questioning, which he was in no state to withstand. However ...
Will we ever tire of the Cambridge spies? Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Burgess and Maclean – and to a lesser extent John ...
Philby and Blunt were, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross, part of the "Ring of Five" - former Cambridge University students who passed information to the Soviets from the ...